carpir

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

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

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

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “carpir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “carpi”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “carpir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “carpir”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “carpir”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “carpir”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

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

• “carpir”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “carpir”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025