{{other uses}} {{Infobox surname | name = Carpentier |image= |caption= | pronunciation = Kar' pen ti ar | meaning = worker or fixer of wood, builder of wood | region =
| variant = Carpenter (surname), Charpentier, etc. | footnotes = }}
'''Carpentier''' is a Norman-Picard surname,<ref>Géopatronyme : repartition by number of birth and French départements of the surname ''Carpentier'' [http://www.geopatronyme.com/cgi-bin/carte/nomcarte.cgi?nom=Carpentier&image.x=0&image.y=0]</ref> variant form of French Charpentier<ref>Géopatronyme : repartition by number of birth and French départements of the surname ''Charpentier'' [http://www.geopatronyme.com/cgi-bin/carte/nomcarte.cgi?nom=Charpentier&image.x=0&image.y=0]</ref> and is similar to the English Carpenter, which is borrowed from Norman. In Basse Normandie, the most common form is Lecarpentier.<ref>Géopatronyme : repartition by number of birth and French départements of the surname ''Lecarpentier'' [http://www.geopatronyme.com/cgi-bin/carte/nomcarte.cgi?nom=Lecarpentier&image.x=0&image.y=0]</ref>
The words ''carpentier, charpentier, carpenter'' are ultimately from Late Latin; ''{{lang|la|carpentarius}}'' "artifex" or "wainwright", equivalent to Latin ''{{lang|la|carpent(um)}}'' "two wheeled carriage" ( < Celtic (Gaulish) ''*{{lang|cel-x-proto|carbanton}}''; cf. OIr ''{{lang|sga|carpad}}'' "chariot") + suffix ''-arius'' - ARY; see ER2.<ref>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.</ref>
Notable people with the surname include: * 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 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), French TV producer couple * Patrice Carpentier (born 1950), French 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)''
==See also== {{Wiktionary|carpentier}} * {{lookfrom|Carpentier}} * {{intitle|Carpentier}} {{Carpenter-surname}} {{surname}}
==References== {{reflist}}
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