Charpentier
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Charpentier is the French
word for carpenter
and a French surname
. A variant spelling is Carpentier
. In English the name is spelled Carpenter (surname)
while in German it is Zimmermann
.
The origin of the name dates to 900-1000 where Charpentier comes from Old French
, Late Latin
: carpentarius artifex or wainwright, equivalent to Latin
carpent(um) two wheeled carriage ( < Celt; cf. OIr carpad chariot) + arius - ARY; see ER2.
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
word for carpenter
Carpenter
A carpenter is a skilled craftsperson who works with timber to construct, install and maintain buildings, furniture, and other objects. The work, known as carpentry, may involve manual labor and work outdoors....
and a French surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
. A variant spelling is Carpentier
Carpentier
Carpentier is a surname from the old French Charpentier and is similar to the English Carpenter.Origin: [900-1000] Charpentier - Old French Carpentier is a surname from the old French Charpentier and is similar to the English Carpenter....
. In English the name is spelled Carpenter (surname)
Carpenter (surname)
Carpenter is a surname. Its use as a forename or middle name is rare. Within the United States, it is ranked as the 189th-most common surname. The English meaning of is one who makes wooden objects and structures by shaping wood.-Origin:...
while in German it is Zimmermann
Zimmermann
Zimmermann is a German surname and the occupational name in German for a carpenter. As a surname, it is often confused with Zimmerman; the variance "nn" or "n" may have a number of implications: racial, ethnic and religious among them. As an occupational name, it derives from the Middle High German...
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The origin of the name dates to 900-1000 where Charpentier comes from Old French
Old French
Old French was the Romance dialect continuum spoken in territories that span roughly the northern half of modern France and parts of modern Belgium and Switzerland from the 9th century to the 14th century...
, Late Latin
Late Latin
Late Latin is the scholarly name for the written Latin of Late Antiquity. The English dictionary definition of Late Latin dates this period from the 3rd to the 6th centuries AD extending in Spain to the 7th. This somewhat ambiguously defined period fits between Classical Latin and Medieval Latin...
: carpentarius artifex or wainwright, equivalent to Latin
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
carpent(um) two wheeled carriage ( < Celt; cf. OIr carpad chariot) + arius - ARY; see ER2.
List of persons with the surname
- Alexandre CharpentierAlexandre CharpentierAlexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier was a French sculptor, medalist, craftsman, and cabinet-maker. From working-class origins and apprenticed to an engraver as a young man, he became a studio assistant to the innovative medallist Joseph-Hubert Ponscarme...
(1856-1909), French sculptor and medallist - Augustin CharpentierAugustin CharpentierAugustin Charpentier was a French physician.In 1891 he carried out the first experiment providing evidence of the size-weight illusion. He carried out a various number of procedures comparing what people thought was the heaviness of lifted weights...
, French physician - Constance Marie CharpentierConstance Marie CharpentierConstance Marie Charpentier was a French painter. She specialized in sentimental genre scenes and portraits, mainly children and women. She was also known as Constance Marie Bondelu....
(1767–1849), French painter - François CharpentierFrançois CharpentierFrançois Charpentier was a French archaeologist and man of letters.-Biography:Charpentier was born in Paris, and intended for the bar, but was employed by Colbert, who had determined on the foundation of a French East India Company, to draw up an explanatory account of the project for Louis...
(1620–1702), French archaeologist and scholar - Fulgence CharpentierFulgence CharpentierFulgence Charpentier, OC was a French-Canadian journalist, editor and publisher.Born in Sainte-Anne-de-Prescott, Ontario, Charpentier's career included diplomatic, political and bureaucratic positions, but his first love had been journalism ever since he began his reporting career at Montreal's Le...
(1897–2001), Canadian journalist, editor and publisher - Henri Charpentier (183?-1888), who drowned in a lake which was given his anglicized name. The nearby town of CarpenterCarpenter, North DakotaCarpenter is an unincorporated community in Rolette County, North Dakota, United States. It was established with the opening of the Carpenter post office on April 9, 1903 at the general merchandise store of Anton T. Julseth in Holmes Township...
was also named for him. - Gustave CharpentierGustave CharpentierGustave Charpentier, , born in Dieuze, Moselle on 25 June 1860, died Paris, 18 February 1956) was a French composer, best known for his opera Louise.-Life and career:...
(1860–1956), French composer - Jean de CharpentierJean de CharpentierJean de Charpentier or Johann von Charpentier was a German-Swiss geologist who studied Swiss glaciers...
(1786–1855), German-Swiss geologist - Jean-Marie CharpentierJean-Marie CharpentierJean-Marie Charpentier was a French architect and urban planner.He founded "ARTE Charpentier" in Paris in 1969. The agency comprises four practices: urban planning & design, landscape design, architecture, interior design....
, French architect - Marc-Antoine CharpentierMarc-Antoine CharpentierMarc-Antoine Charpentier, , was a French composer of the Baroque era.Exceptionally prolific and versatile, he produced compositions of the highest quality in several genres...
(1643–1704), French composer - Sébastien CharpentierSébastien Charpentier (motorcycle racer)Sébastien Charpentier is a French motorcycle road racer. He is the only man to have won the Supersport World Championship in successive years, and ....
(b. 1973), French motorcycle racer - Sébastien Charpentier (b. 1977), Canadian ice hockey player
- Toussaint de CharpentierToussaint de CharpentierToussaint de Charpentier was a German geologist and entomologist.He was the author of Libellulinae europaeae descriptae e depictae .-Biography:...
(1779–1847), German geologist and entomologist - Victor-Therese CharpentierVictor-Therese CharpentierVictor-Therese Charpentier d'Ennery was the marquis, and later count, of Ennery and was also a governor general of Saint-Domingue in the mid-to-late 18th century.- Family :...
(1732-1776), French governor-general of Saint-DomingueSaint-DomingueThe labour for these plantations was provided by an estimated 790,000 African slaves . Between 1764 and 1771, the average annual importation of slaves varied between 10,000-15,000; by 1786 it was about 28,000, and from 1787 onward, the colony received more than 40,000 slaves a year...
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See also
- Charpentier RiverCharpentier RiverCharpentier River is a river in northern Quebec , Canada, that flows from Lac Nedlouc for about 125 km northwest to Lake Minto. A rarely paddled river, it flows through very beautiful wilderness tundra & taiga. It has several picturesque waterfalls, namely Chutes de Burin and Chute Bleu. It is...
River in Northern QuebecQuebecQuebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
(Ungava PeninsulaUngava PeninsulaThe Ungava Peninsula of Nunavik, Quebec, Canada, is bounded by Hudson Bay to the west, Hudson Strait to the north, and Ungava Bay to the east. The Ungava Peninsula is part of the Labrador Peninsula and covers about 252,000 km²...
), CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean... - Von Charpentier or de Charpentier, a German family of geologists:
- Johann Friedrich Wilhelm de Charpentier (1738–1805), the father of Toussaint de CharpentierToussaint de CharpentierToussaint de Charpentier was a German geologist and entomologist.He was the author of Libellulinae europaeae descriptae e depictae .-Biography:...
- Johann Friedrich Wilhelm de Charpentier (1738–1805), the father of Toussaint de Charpentier