Charpentier

Charpentier () is the French word for "carpenter", and it is also a French surname; a variant spelling is Carpentier. In English, the equivalent word and name is "Carpenter"; in German, "Zimmermann".
The origin of the name dates to 900–1000, when the Old French "Charpentier" derived from the Late Latin "carpentarius artifex" ("carpenter" or "wainwright"), equivalent to Latin "carpent(um)", meaning "two-wheeled carriage" (perhaps ultimately derived from Celtic—consider Old Irish "carpad", "chariot"), suffixed with "arius" ("-ary"); see ER2.