Carpentier

For other uses, see Carpentier (disambiguation).
Carpentier
PronunciationKar' pen ti ar
Origin
Meaningworker or fixer of wood, builder of wood
Other names
Variant formsCarpenter (surname), Charpentier, etc.

Carpentier is a Norman-Picard surname, variant form of French Charpentier and is similar to the English Carpenter, which is borrowed from Norman. In Basse Normandie, the most common form is Lecarpentier.

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.

Notable people with the surname include:

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