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Charpentier Family name Pronunciation Shaur PAHN' t'yih Meaning worker or fixer of wood, builder of wood Related names Carpenter (surname), Zimmermann, Zimerman, Zimmerman, Carpentier Charpentier (pronounced: [ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tje]) is the French word for carpenter and a French surname. A variant spelling is Carpentier. In English the name is spelled Carpenter (surname) while in German it is Zimmermann.
The origin of the name dates to 900-1000 where Charpentier comes from 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]
List of persons with the surname
- Alexandre Charpentier (1856-1909), French sculptor and medallist
- Augustin Charpentier, French physician
- Constance Marie Charpentier (1767–1849), French painter
- François Charpentier (1620–1702), French archaeologist and scholar
- Fulgence Charpentier (1897–2001), Canadian journalist, editor and publisher
- Henri Charpentier (183?-1888), who drowned in a lake which was given his anglicized name. The nearby town of Carpenter was also named for him.
- 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 de Charpentier (1738–1805), the father of Toussaint de Charpentier
- All pages beginning with "Charpentier"
- All pages with titles containing "Charpentier"
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.
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