carpir

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese carpir, from Latin carpere (“to tear off”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɾˈpiɾ/

Verb

carpir (first-person singular present carpo, first-person singular preterite carpín, past participle carpido)

1. (dated, textiles) to fluff up
2. (dated, textiles) to card

   Synonyms: carmear, carpear

3. to tear off the hair
4. to weep, to cry, to bewail
5. to mourn

References

• “carpir” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “carpi” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “carpir” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “carpir” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology

From Old Portuguese carpir, from Latin carpere, present active infinitive of carpō (“I tear off”), from Proto-Indo-European *kerp- (“to pluck, harvest”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐɾ.ˈpiɾ/
• Hyphenation: car‧pir

Verb

carpir (first-person singular present indicative carpo, past participle carpido)

1. to mourn
2. to weep
3. to weed (to remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area)

Etymology

From Latin carpere, present active infinitive of carpō.

Verb

carpir (first-person singular present carpo, first-person singular preterite carpí, past participle carpido)

1. to weed; to hoe.