tapet

See also: Tapet, tapêt, tapét, and tapèt

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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, […]

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

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtapɛt]

Noun

tapet

1. genitive plural of tapeta

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

Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:

tapet

Wikipedia ^nb

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.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Tapet.

Pronunciation

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Central Greater Poland) IPA^(key): /ˈta.pɛt/

Noun

tapet m inan

1. (Central Greater Poland) Synonym of obicie

Further reading

• 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

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	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	tapet	tapetul		tapete	tapetele
genitive-dative	tapet	tapetului		tapete	tapetelor
vocative	tapetule			tapetelor

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

tapet

Wikipedia ^sv

Noun

tapet c

1. a wallpaper (decorative paper for walls)

Declension

Declension of tapet

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	tapet	tapets
	definite	tapeten	tapetens
plural	indefinite	tapeter	tapeters
	definite	tapeterna	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