carpe diem
Letters
10 characters
Language
French
word origin
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0
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carpe diem is anFrenchintj. It means: Expression célèbre, qui se trouve dans un poème d’Horace : Odes, I, 1 vers 8. Cueille le jour, et ne crois pas au lendemain. (Leconte de Lisle, 1873). Ce conseil est à la fin de l’ode. Dans celle-c... Pronounced \kaʁ.pe djɛm\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carpe diem |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Intj |
| IPA | \kaʁ.pe djɛm\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for carpe diem is 10 letters long, classified as anintj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kaʁ.pe djɛm\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for carpe diem in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is carpe diem, spelled C-A-R-P-E- -D-I-E-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Expression célèbre, qui se trouve dans un poème d’Horace : Odes, I, 1 vers 8. Cueille le jour, et ne crois pas au lendemain. (Leconte de Lisle, 1873). Ce conseil est à la fin de l’ode. Dans celle-ci, Horace cherche à persuader Leuconoé de profiter du moment présent, sans s’inquiéter de l’heure de sa mort. La vie est courte ; il ne faut pas gâcher le peu de temps que nous avons, en imaginant un lendemain moins agréable.
- 2Emploi classique de cette expression : un raccourci de la philosophie épicurienne.
- 3Emploi moderne de cette locution : invitation à l’insouciance et au plaisir sans arrière-pensée. Profite de l’instant présent.
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