tapet

English

Etymology

Old English teped, from Latin tapetum (later influenced by or re-borrowed from Latin).

Noun

tapet (plural tapets)

1. (obsolete) A decorative wall-hanging; a hanging cloth or piece of tapestry.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     in those Tapets weren fashioned / Many faire pourtraicts, and many a faire feate […]

Anagrams

• patte, patté

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tapete, from Latin tapēs. Doublet of tapís.

Noun

tapet m (plural tapets)

1. (archaic) coverlet

   Synonym: cobrellit

2. tablecloth

   Synonym: cobretaula

3. (botany) tapetum

Further reading

• “tapet”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “tapet” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology 1

From German Tapete, from Latin tapete.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tapeːt/,

Noun

tapet n (singular definite tapetet, plural indefinite tapeter)

1. wallpaper (decorative paper for walls)

Inflection

Etymology 2

See tape (“to bind with adhesive tape”).

Verb

tapet

1. past participle of tape

References

• “tapet” in Den Danske Ordbog

Narua

Noun

tapet

1. leech

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːpə/

Noun

tapet n

1. definite singular of tap

Etymology 2

Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:

tapet

Wikipedia ^nb

From Latin tapete, and Italian, via German Tapete.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑˈpeːt/

Noun

tapet m or n (definite singular tapeten or tapetet, indefinite plural tapeter or tapet, definite plural tapetene or tapeta)

1. wallpaper (decorative paper for walls)

Derived terms

• tapetlim

References

• “tapet” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑː.pə/

Noun

tapet n

1. definite singular of tap

Etymology 2

From Latin tapete and Italian, via German Tapete.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑˈpeːt/

Noun

tapet m or n (definite singular tapeten or tapetet, indefinite plural tapetar or tapet, definite plural tapetane or tapeta)

1. wallpaper (decorative paper for walls)

Derived terms

• tapetlim

References

• “tapet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tappeto or German Tapete.

Noun

tapet n (plural tapete)

1. wallpaper (in the original sense only)

Declension

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

tapet

Wikipedia ^sv

Noun

tapet c

1. a wallpaper (decorative paper for walls)

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• tapetsera
• tapetserare
• tapetsering

References

• tapet in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tapet in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tapet in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• patte, petat