Carpentier
| Pronunciation | Kar' pen ti ar |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Meaning | worker or fixer of wood, builder of wood |
| Other names | |
| Variant form(s) | Carpenter (surname), Zimmermann, Zimerman, Zimmerman, Charpentier |
Carpentier is a Norman-Picard surname,[1] variant form of French Charpentier[2] and is similar to the English Carpenter, that 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]
Carpentier may refer to:
Notable people
- Alain Carpentier (born 1933), French heart surgeon
- Alejo Carpentier (1904–1980), Cuban writer and musicologist
- Charles Francis Carpentier (1896-1964), American politician
- Donald Dee Carpentier (1931-1982), American politician
- Édouard Carpentier (1926-2010), French professional wrestler
- Évariste Carpentier (1845-1922), Belgian painter
- Georges Carpentier (1894–1975), French boxer
- Horace Carpentier (1824–1918), American lawyer and first mayor of Oakland, California
- Jean-Baptiste Le Carpentier (1719-1829) French political activist from Normandy
- 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), married French TV producers
- Antoine Matthieu Le Carpentier (1709-1773), French architect
- 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 (born 1922), Canadian politician
Fictional characters
- Allen Carpentier, protagonist in Niven & Pournelle's Inferno (novel)
See also
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References
- ^ 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.