Talk:carpasinus

RFV discussion: October 2016–March 2017
RFV for the Latin. Judging by, a word like this does seem to exist, and it does seem to have something to do with colour, but "green"? — I.S.M.E.T.A. 10:40, 12 October 2016 (UTC) Also, this term is not listed by L&S, du Cange, Gaffiot, the OLD, Niermeyer, or the NLW. — I.S.M.E.T.A. 10:41, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
 * There is a genus name Carposinus (certain bark beetles, now ) (and another of fruit moths/borers), the names presumably derived from . I have not yet found any use of either carpasinus or carposinus as a specific epithet (any gender). DCDuring TALK  13:22, 12 October 2016 (UTC)


 * This is from a hapax legomenon in the Hebrew of Esther 1:6, which is nowadays translated as cotton or fine linen. No one knew what to do with it, so they just transliterated it, until the King James Version translators just made something up rather than use a transliteration:
 * Hebrew :
 * Septuagint :
 * Vulgate :
 * King James Version :
 * New Revised Standard Version :
 * Actually, I vaguely remember there being a similar, but unrelated word that meant something like "green and growing" in some language along the way, so it wasn't completely arbitrary- but I'm just going on my memory of stuff I read 4 decades ago when I was interested in biblical plants. At any rate, this is one of those mistranslations in the KJV that can't be completely ignored because it's in the KJV- even if it is completely wrong, Chuck Entz (talk) 14:19, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Just because the KJV uses 'green' doesn't mean we have to. After all, the KJV comes after the Vulgate. Just put basically what we've said, the meaning is unknown but subsequent English translations have used 'green' and 'linen' as possible translations. Renard Migrant (talk) 19:26, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
 * BTW it's one of the things you eat in the Seder, there's Karpas. But there isn't really a consensus on what is it. —Enosh (talk) 07:48, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

Note: See the relevant discussion at Talk:כרפס. — I.S.M.E.T.A. 11:59, 23 November 2016 (UTC)


 * The word seems to meet CFI via the Vulgate citation, but I have changed the definition to note the uncertainty about its meaning. Please revise the definition and etymology further if needed, but the RFV seems to be resolved. - -sche (discuss) 07:15, 18 March 2017 (UTC)