Charpentier
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| Charpentier | |
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| Family name | |
| Pronunciation | Shar pon' tee ay |
| Meaning | worker or fixer of wood, builder of wood |
| Related names | Carpenter (surname), Zimmermann, Zimerman, Zimmerman, Carpentier |
Charpentier is the French word for carpenter and a French surname. A variant spelling is Carpentier.
Origin: [900-1000] Charpentier - Old French < Late Latin; carpentarius artifex or wainwright, equivalent to Latin carpent(um) two wheeled carriage ( < Celt; cf. OIr carpad chariot) + arius - ARY; see ER2.[1]
In English it is Carpenter (surname). In German it is Zimmermann.
Charpentier may refer to:
- Constance Marie Charpentier (1767–1849), French Painter
- François Charpentier (1620–1702), French archaeologist and scholar
- Fulgence Charpentier (1897–2001), Canadian journalist, editor and publisher
- Gustave Charpentier (1860–1956), French composer
- Jean de Charpentier (1786–1855), German-Swiss geologist
- Jean-Marie Charpentier, French architect
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704), French composer
- Sébastien Charpentier (b. 1973), French motorcycle racer
- Sébastien Charpentier (b. 1977), Canadian ice hockey player
- Toussaint de Charpentier (1779–1847), German geologist and entomologist
- Victor-Therese Charpentier (1732-1776), French governor-general of Saint-Domingue.
See also
- Charpentier River River in Northern Quebec (Ungava Peninsula), Canada
- Von Charpentier or de Charpentier, a German family of geologists:
- Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Toussaint von Charpentier (1738–1805)
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References
- ^ 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.
