tapet

See also: tapêt

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, The Faerie Queene, III.xi:
      in those Tapets weren fashioned / Many faire pourtraicts, and many a faire feate […]

Anagrams

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

Etymology 2

See tape (“to bind with adhesive tape”).

Verb

tapet

  1. past participle of tape

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑːpə/

Noun

tapet n

  1. definite singular of tap

Etymology 2

From Latin tapete, and Italian [Term?], via German Tapete

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taˈpeːt/

Noun

tapet n (definite singular tapetet, indefinite plural tapet or tapeter, definite plural tapeta or tapetene)

  1. wallpaper (decorative paper for walls)
Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Noun

tapet n

  1. definite singular of tap

Etymology 2

From Latin tapete and Italian, via German Tapete

Noun

tapet n (definite singular tapetet, indefinite plural tapet, definite plural tapeta)

  1. wallpaper (decorative paper for walls)
Derived terms

References

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

References

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