karpentero

Borrowed from English carpenter, from Middle English, from Anglo-Norman carpentier, from Old Northern French (compare Old French charpantier), from Late Latin carpentārius (“a carpenter”), Latin carpentārius (“a wagon-maker, carriage-maker”), from Latin carpentum (“a two-wheeled carriage, coach, or chariot, a cart”), from Gaulish carbantos, from Proto-Celtic *karbantos (“chariot, war chariot”), probably related to Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”). More at car.

• Hyphenation: kar‧pen‧te‧ro

karpentero

1. A carpenter; a person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.

• (a carpenter): panday