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Meaning & History
In reference to the mountain range of Eastern Europe, from Thracian Greek Karpates oros, probably literally literally "Rocky Mountain"; related to Albanian karpe "rock." From 1630s in reference to the island of Carpathos in the Aegean. Also the name of a ship, the RMS Carpathia which saved survivors from the Titanic.