different between tapestry vs tapet

English

Etymology

From Middle English tapiestre, from Old French tapisserie (“tapestry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tæp?st?i/, [?tæp?st???i]

Noun

tapestry (countable and uncountable, plural tapestries)

1. A heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls.
2. (by extension) Anything with variegated or complex details.

Translations

Verb

tapestry (third-person singular simple present tapestries, present participle tapestrying, simple past and past participle tapestried)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To decorate with tapestry, or as if with a tapestry.

Translations

See also

• tapetum lucidum

Anagrams

• spattery, tryptase

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

• patte, patté

Danish

Etymology 1

From German Tapete, from Latin tapete

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tape?t/, [t?a?p?e??d?]

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

• “tapet” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??p?/

Noun

tapet n

1. definite singular of tap

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?pe?t/

Noun

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

1. wallpaper (decorative paper for walls)

Derived terms

• tapetlim

References

• “tapet” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

• tapetlim

References

• “tapet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

tapet c

1. a wallpaper (decorative paper for walls)

Declension

Derived terms

References

• tapet in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• patte, petat