carpir

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

• IPA^(key): /kaɾˈpiɾ/

carpir (first-person singular present carpo, first-person singular preterite carpín, past participle carpido)
carpir (first-person singular present carpo, first-person singular preterite carpim or carpi, past participle carpido, reintegrationist norm)

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

• carpear
• carpideiro
• carpidor
• carpiña
• escarpear
• escarpidor
• escarpizar
• escarpullar

• “carpir” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “carpi” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “carpir” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “carpir”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “carpir” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

From Old Galician-Portuguese carpir, from Latin carpere (“to tear off”), from Proto-Indo-European *kerp- (“to pluck, harvest”).

• Hyphenation: car‧pir

carpir (no first-person singular present, no present subjunctive, third-person singular present carpe, first-person singular preterite carpi, past participle carpido)

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

• (mourn, weep): chorar, lamentar

• carpideira

Inherited from Latin carpere.

• IPA^(key): /kaɾˈpiɾ/ [kaɾˈpiɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: car‧pir

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

1. to weed; to hoe

• “carpir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014