The corpus record — Latin

Carpus

Carpus · m

the name of a carver

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Where it lives

De Oratione 1 · 2.23/10k
Satyricon 6 · 1.97/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Carpus — Lewis & Short

Carpus, i, m.carpo,

I the name of a carver: qui obsonium carpit Carpus vocatur. Itaque quotiescunque dicit Carpe, eodem verbo et vocat et imperat, Petr. 36 fin.; 40.

In the wild

Carpe Petronius, Satyricon 36
Carpe Petronius, Satyricon 36
Carpe Petronius, Satyricon 36
Carpi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.4.p1
Carpo Martial, Epigrammata 7.74.7
Carpus Petronius, Satyricon 40

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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