Carpentier

For other uses, see Carpentier (disambiguation).

CarpentierPronunciation| Kar' pen ti ar

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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

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* 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 professional 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), married French TV producers
* Patrice Carpentier (born 1950), French professional 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

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* Allen Carpentier, protagonist in Niven & Pournelle's Inferno (novel)

## See also

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* All pages with titles beginning with Carpentier
* All pages with titles containing Carpentier

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Surnames associated with the occupation of Carpenter

Celtic|

* MacIntyre

Germanic|

* Schrage
* Schreiner
*     * Tischler
* Tishler
* Wright
*     * Zimmerer
* Zimmerman
* Zimerman
* Zimmermann (Czech: Cimrman)
* Simmerman
* Timmerman
* Stenger
* Stender

Romance|

* Carpender
* Carpenter
* Carpentier
* Carpinteiro
* Carpintero
* Charpentier

Semitic|

* Najjar
* Nagar

Slavic|

*     * Ciesielski
* Cieśla
* Cieślak
* Cieślar
* Cieślik
* Tesař
* Tesařík
* Teslya
*     * Plotnick
* Plotnikov
*     * Stolarski
* Stolař
* Stolarz
* Stolarczyk
* Stolyar
* Stolyarchuk
* Stolyarenko
* Stolyarov

Uralic|

* Ács, Asztalos, Puusepp

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## References

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1. ^ Géopatronyme : repartition by number of birth and French départements of the surname Carpentier [1]
2. ^ Géopatronyme : repartition by number of birth and French départements of the surname Charpentier [2]
3. ^ Géopatronyme : repartition by number of birth and French départements of the surname Lecarpentier [3]
4. ^ 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.

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