Carpentier Explained

Carpentier
Pronunciation:	Kar' pen ti ar
Meaning:	worker or fixer of wood, builder of wood
Variant:	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; Latin: carpentarius "artifex" or "wainwright", equivalent to Latin Latin: carpent(um) "two wheeled carriage" (< Celtic (Gaulish) *Celtic languages: carbanton; cf. OIr Irish, Old (to 900);: carpad "chariot") + suffix -arius - ARY; see ER2.^[4]

Carpentier may refer to:

Notable people

• 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

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

Notes and References

1. Géopatronyme : repartition by number of birth and French départements of the surname Carpentier http://www.geopatronyme.com/cgi-bin/carte/nomcarte.cgi?nom=Carpentier&amp;image.x=0&amp;image.y=0
2. Géopatronyme : repartition by number of birth and French départements of the surname Charpentier http://www.geopatronyme.com/cgi-bin/carte/nomcarte.cgi?nom=Charpentier&amp;image.x=0&amp;image.y=0
3. Géopatronyme : repartition by number of birth and French départements of the surname Lecarpentier http://www.geopatronyme.com/cgi-bin/carte/nomcarte.cgi?nom=Lecarpentier&amp;image.x=0&amp;image.y=0
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.