# tapet
## English
### Etymology

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

### Noun

tapet (plural tapets)
* (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)
* (archaic) coverlet
    Synonym: cobrellit
* tablecloth
    Synonym: cobretaula
* (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: [ˈtapɛt]

### Noun

tapet
* genitive plural of tapeta

## Danish
### Etymology 1

From German Tapete, from Latin tapete.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tapeːt/, [tˢaˈpʰeːˀd̥]

#### Noun

tapet n (singular definite tapetet, plural indefinite tapeter)
* wallpaper (decorative paper for walls)

##### Inflection
### Etymology 2

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

#### Verb

tapet
* past participle of tape

### References

* “tapet” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Narua
### Noun

tapet
* leech

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɑːpə/

#### Noun

tapet n
* definite singular of tap

### Etymology 2

From Latin tapete, and Italian, via German Tapete.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɑˈpeːt/

#### Noun

tapet m or n (definite singular tapeten or tapetet, indefinite plural tapeter or tapet, definite plural tapetene or tapeta)
* wallpaper (decorative paper for walls)

##### Derived terms

* tapetlim

### References

* “tapet” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɑː.pə/

#### Noun

tapet n
* definite singular of tap

### Etymology 2

From Latin tapete and Italian, via German Tapete.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɑˈpeːt/

#### Noun

tapet m or n (definite singular tapeten or tapetet, indefinite plural tapetar or tapet, definite plural tapetane or tapeta)
* 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: /ˈta.pɛt/

### Noun

tapet m inan
* (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)
* wallpaper (in the original sense only)

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Noun

tapet c
* a wallpaper (decorative paper for walls)

#### 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