tapet

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

tapet (plural tapets)

1. (obsolete) A decorative wall-hanging; a hanging cloth or piece of tapestry.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 568:

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

• patte, patté

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

tapet m (plural tapets)

1. (archaic) coverlet

   Synonym: cobrellit

2. tablecloth

   Synonym: cobretaula

3. (botany) tapetum

• “tapet”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “tapet”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

• IPA^(key): [ˈtapɛt]

tapet

1. genitive plural of tapeta

From German Tapete, from Latin tapete.

• IPA^(key): /tapeːt/, [tˢaˈpʰeːˀd̥]

tapet n (singular definite tapetet, plural indefinite tapeter)

1. wallpaper (decorative paper for walls)

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

tapet

1. past participle of tape

• “tapet” in Den Danske Ordbog

tapet

1. leech

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːpə/

tapet n

1. definite singular of tap

From Latin tapete, and Italian, via German Tapete.

• IPA^(key): /tɑˈpeːt/

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)

• tapetlim

• “tapet” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑː.pə/

tapet n

1. definite singular of tap

From Latin tapete and Italian, via German Tapete.

• IPA^(key): /tɑˈpeːt/

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)

• tapetlim

• “tapet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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• Rhymes: -apɛt
• Syllabification: ta‧pet

Borrowed from German Tapet.

tapet m inan

1. (archaic) conference table usually covered with green broadcloth
2. (Central Greater Poland) synonym of obicie

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tapet

1. genitive plural of tapeta

• “tapet”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)
• Oskar Kolberg (1877), “tapet”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 24

Borrowed from Italian tappeto or German Tapete.

tapet n (plural tapete)

1. wallpaper (in the original sense only)

tapet c

1. a wallpaper (decorative paper for walls)

• tapetsera
• tapetserare
• tapetsering

• “tapet”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “tapet”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “tapet”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

• patte, petat