tapete

See also: Tapete

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese tapete, tapede (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin tapēte, from tapēs. Doublet of tapiz, a borrowing from French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [taˈpetɪ]

Noun

tapete m (plural tapetes)

1. tablecloth
2. (dated) rug, carpet
   • 1326, López Ferreiro, Antonio (ed.): Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 295:

     mando esta mia cama assy como iaz con sous panos et con suas cortinas et ceo et con sous alfamares et con los outros destalos que eu trago comunalmente pela terra et con vn pano uerde et un tapete sen bançaes

     I bequeath this my bed, as it is, with its clothes and with its curtains and ceiling and with its quilts and with the other clothes that I have usually in the ground and with a green cloth and a rug, no bancals

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “tapete”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “tape”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tapete”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tapete”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tapete”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Interlingua

Noun

tapete (plural tapetes)

1. carpet
2. rug

Latin

Etymology

See tapes

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /taˈpeː.te/, [t̪äˈpeːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /taˈpe.te/, [t̪äˈpɛːt̪e]

Noun

tapēte n (genitive tapētis); third declension

1. cloth (decorative, for use as carpet, wall hangings etc.)

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tapēte	tapētia
Genitive	tapētis	tapētium
Dative	tapētī	tapētibus
Accusative	tapēte	tapētia
Ablative	tapētī	tapētibus
Vocative	tapēte	tapētia

References

• “tapete”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tapete in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “tapete”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “tapete”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Latvian

Noun

tapete f (5th declension)

1. (in the plural) wallpaper
2. (computing) wallpaper

Declension

Declension of tapete (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	tapete	tapetes
accusative (akuzatīvs)	tapeti	tapetes
genitive (ģenitīvs)	tapetes	tapešu
dative (datīvs)	tapetei	tapetēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	tapeti	tapetēm
locative (lokatīvs)	tapetē	tapetēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	tapete	tapetes

Portuguese

tapete

Alternative forms

• tapête

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese tapete, tapede, from Latin tapēte, from tapēs.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /taˈpe.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /taˈpe.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /taˈpe.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɐˈpe.tɨ/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -et͡ʃi, (Portugal) -etɨ
• Hyphenation: ta‧pe‧te

Noun

tapete m (plural tapetes)

1. carpet (a fabric used as a floor covering)

See also

• alcatifa
• carpete
• tapeçaria

Further reading

• “tapete”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tapētem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈpete/ [t̪aˈpe.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ete
• Syllabification: ta‧pe‧te

Noun

tapete m (plural tapetes)

1. runner, carpet, rug

   Synonyms: piso, alfombra

2. tablecloth

   Synonym: mantel

Related terms

• tapiz

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: tapet
• → Tarifit: ⵜⴰⵒⵒⵉⵜ (tappit), tappit

Further reading

• “tapete”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014