tapet
English edit
Etymology edit
Old English teped, from Latin tapetum (later influenced by or re-borrowed from Latin).
Noun edit
tapet (plural tapets)
- (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 edit
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish tapete, from Latin tapēs. Doublet of tapís.
Noun edit
tapet m (plural tapets)
- (archaic) coverlet
- Synonym: cobrellit
- tablecloth
- Synonym: cobretaula
- (botany) tapetum
Further reading edit
- “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 edit
Etymology 1 edit
From German Tapete, from Latin tapete.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tapet n (singular definite tapetet, plural indefinite tapeter)
- wallpaper (decorative paper for walls)
Inflection edit
neuter gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | tapet | tapetet | tapeter | tapeterne |
genitive | tapets | tapetets | tapeters | tapeternes |
Etymology 2 edit
See tape (“to bind with adhesive tape”).
Verb edit
tapet
- past participle of tape
References edit
- “tapet” in Den Danske Ordbog
Narua edit
Noun edit
tapet
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tapet n
Etymology 2 edit
From Latin tapete, and Italian, via German Tapete.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tapet m or n (definite singular tapeten or tapetet, indefinite plural tapeter or tapet, definite plural tapetene or tapeta)
- wallpaper (decorative paper for walls)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “tapet” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tapet n
Etymology 2 edit
From Latin tapete and Italian, via German Tapete.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tapet m or n (definite singular tapeten or tapetet, indefinite plural tapetar or tapet, definite plural tapetane or tapeta)
- wallpaper (decorative paper for walls)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “tapet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian tappeto or German Tapete.
Noun edit
tapet n (plural tapete)
- wallpaper (in the original sense only)
Declension edit
Swedish edit
Noun edit
tapet c
- a wallpaper (decorative paper for walls)
Declension edit
Declension of tapet | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | tapet | tapeten | tapeter | tapeterna |
Genitive | tapets | tapetens | tapeters | tapeternas |
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
References edit
- tapet in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- tapet in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- tapet in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)