tapete

From Old Galician-Portuguese tapete, tapede (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin tapēte, from tapēs. Doublet of tapiz, a borrowing from French.

• IPA^(key): [taˈpetɪ]

tapete m (plural tapetes)

1. tablecloth
2. (dated) rug, carpet
   • 1326, López Ferreiro, Antonio (ed.): Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 295:

     mando esta mia cama assy como iaz con sous panos et con suas cortinas et ceo et con sous alfamares et con los outros destalos que eu trago comunalmente pela terra et con vn pano uerde et un tapete sen bançaes

     I bequeath this my bed, as it is, with its clothes and with its curtains and ceiling and with its quilts and with the other clothes that I have usually in the ground and with a green cloth and a rug, no bancals

• “tapete” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “tape” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “tapete” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “tapete” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tapete” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

tapete (plural tapetes)

1. carpet
2. rug

See tapes

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /taˈpeː.te/, [t̪äˈpeːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /taˈpe.te/, [t̪äˈpɛːt̪e]

tapēte n (genitive tapētis); third declension

1. cloth (decorative, for use as carpet, wall hangings etc.)

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

• “tapete”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tapete in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “tapete”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “tapete”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

tapete f (5th declension)

1. (in the plural) wallpaper
2. (computing) wallpaper

• tapête

From Old Galician-Portuguese tapete, tapede, from Latin tapēte, from tapēs.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -et͡ʃi, (Portugal) -etɨ
• Hyphenation: ta‧pe‧te

tapete m (plural tapetes)

1. carpet (a fabric used as a floor covering)

• alcatifa
• carpete
• tapeçaria

• “tapete” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Borrowed from Latin tapētem.

• IPA^(key): /taˈpete/ [t̪aˈpe.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ete
• Syllabification: ta‧pe‧te

tapete m (plural tapetes)

1. runner, carpet, rug

   Synonyms: piso, alfombra

2. tablecloth

   Synonym: mantel

• → Catalan: tapet
• → Tarifit: ⵜⴰⵒⵒⵉⵜ (tappit), tappit

• “tapete”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014