carpio

• carpō, carphō

Ultimately from an old Teutonic source, cognate with English carp. Used later by Linnaeus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkar.pi.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkar.pi.o]

carpiō m (genitive carpiōnis); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) carp

Third-declension noun.

• Translingual: Carpio (obsolete), Cyprinus carpio, Carpiodes carpio, Floridichthys carpio, Salmo carpio

• "carpio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “carpio”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “carpio”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill