tapiz

Galician

Etymology

From French tapis, from Latin tapēs. Doublet of tapete.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [taˈpiθ], [taˈpis]

Noun

tapiz m (plural tapices)

1. tablecloth
   • 1813, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Rogos de un escolar gallego:

     Sobre un tapiz dua mesa
     mais louro do que é o carbon
     hay procesos, e un tinteiro
     feito de corno de boy.

     Over the cloth of a table,
     blacker than coal,
     there are lawsuits and an inkwell
     made with ox horn

2. tapestry

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tapiz”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tapiz”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Middle French

Noun

tapiz m (plural tapiz)

1. carpet

Descendants

• French: tapis
  • → Nafaanra: tapis

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *tappetium, from Latin tapēs, tapētem or from Byzantine Greek ταπήτιον (tapḗtion), from Ancient Greek τάπης (tápēs), from an Iranian source.

Noun

tapiz oblique singular, m (oblique plural tapiz, nominative singular tapiz, nominative plural tapiz)

1. carpet; rug
   • c. 1250, Rutebeuf, Ci encoumence la vie de Sainte Elyzabel, fille au roi de Hongrie:

     Sor .I. tapiz devant son lit
     Dormoit souvent a grant delit

     On a carpet in front of his bed
     He often slept very well

Descendants

• Middle French: tapiz
  • French: tapis
    • → Nafaanra: tapis
• → Catalan: tapís
• → Spanish: tapiz

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French tapis, from Ancient Greek τάπης (tápēs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /taˈpiθ/ [t̪aˈpiθ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /taˈpis/ [t̪aˈpis]
• Rhymes: -iθ
• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: ta‧piz

Noun

tapiz m (plural tapices)

1. tapestry
2. carpet

   Synonym: alfombra

Derived terms

• papel tapiz
• tapicero

 

Further reading

• “tapiz”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10