Carpentier
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| Pronunciation | Kar' pen ti ar |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Meaning | worker or fixer of wood, builder of wood |
| Other names | |
| Variant forms | Carpenter (surname), Charpentier, etc. |
Carpentier is a Norman-Picard surname,[1] variant form of French Charpentier[2] and is similar to the English Carpenter, which is borrowed from Norman. In Basse Normandie, the most common form is Lecarpentier.[3]
The words carpentier, charpentier, carpenter are ultimately from Late Latin; carpentarius "artifex" or "wainwright", equivalent to Latin carpent(um) "two wheeled carriage" ( < Celtic (Gaulish) **carbanton; cf. OIr carpad "chariot") + suffix -arius - ARY; see ER2.[4]
Notable people with the surname include:
- Alain Carpentier (born 1933), French heart surgeon
- Alejo Carpentier (1904–1980), Cuban writer and musicologist
- Alexandra Carpentier (born 1987), French mathematical statistician
- Antoine Matthieu Le Carpentier (1709–1773), French architect
- Brett Carpentier (born 1975), Canadian snowboarder
- Charles Francis Carpentier (1896–1964), American politician
- Donald Dee Carpentier (1931–1982), American businessman and politician
- Édouard Carpentier (1926–2010), French wrestler
- Évariste Carpentier (1845–1922), Belgian painter
- Georges Carpentier (1894–1975), French boxer
- Gervais Carpentier, Canadian brigadier general
- Horace Carpentier (1824–1918), American lawyer and first mayor of Oakland, California
- Jean-Baptiste Le Carpentier (1719–1829) French political activist from Normandy
- Jean Carpentier (1933–2018), French historian
- Jules Carpentier (1851–1921) French engineer and inventor
- Marcel Carpentier (1895–1977) French military officer
- Marguerite Jeanne Carpentier (1886–1965) French painter and sculptor
- Maritie and Gilbert Carpentier (Maritie 1922–2002, Gilbert 1920–2000), French TV producer couple
- Patrice Carpentier (born 1950), French sailor
- Patrick Carpentier (born 1971), Canadian race car driver
- Paul Claude-Michel Carpentier (1787–1877), French portrait, genre, history painter and author
- Pieter de Carpentier (c. 1586–1659), Dutch or Flemish administrator of the Dutch East India Company
- Prudent Carpentier (1922–2019), Canadian politician
- William Carpentier (born 1935/36), Canadian-American physician
Fictional characters
[edit | edit source]- Allen Carpentier, protagonist in Niven & Pournelle's Inferno (novel)
See also
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References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Géopatronyme : repartition by number of birth and French départements of the surname Carpentier [1]
- ^ Géopatronyme : repartition by number of birth and French départements of the surname Charpentier [2]
- ^ Géopatronyme : repartition by number of birth and French départements of the surname Lecarpentier [3]
- ^ Combined from several sources including: Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary, 1996 by Barnes & Noble Books and "Concise Oxford Dictionary - 10th Edition by Oxford University Press.