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, 2025
• “tapet” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• 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.

Borrowed from German Tapet.

• Rhymes: -apɛt
• Syllabification: ta‧pet

tapet m inan

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

• tapet in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• 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 (SO)
• tapet in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tapet in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• patte, petat