tapet

See also: Tapet, tapêt, tapét, and tapèt

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/, [tˢaˈpʰeːˀd̥]

Noun

tapet n (singular definite tapetet, plural indefinite tapeter)

1. wallpaper (decorative paper for walls)

Inflection

Declension of tapet

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tapet	tapetet	tapeter	tapeterne
genitive	tapets	tapetets	tapeters	tapeternes

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

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

Declension of tapet

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) tapet	tapetul	(niște) tapete	tapetele
genitive/dative	(unui) tapet	tapetului	(unor) tapete	tapetelor
vocative	tapetule		tapetelor

Swedish

Noun

tapet c

1. a wallpaper (decorative paper for walls)

Declension

Declension of tapet
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	tapet	tapeten	tapeter	tapeterna
Genitive	tapets	tapetens	tapeters	tapeternas

Derived terms

• papperstapet
• strukturtapet
• tapetbård
• tapetdörr
• tapetklister
• tapetmönster
• tapetrulle
• tapetskärare
• tapettryck
• tapetvåd
• väggtapet
• vävtapet

 

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