tapes

See also: Tapes and tapés

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪps

Noun

tapes

1. plural of tape

Verb

tapes

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of tape

Anagrams

• paste, septa-, septa, aspet, pâtés, sepat, tepas, Pesta, spate, speat, patés, stape, pates, peats

Catalan

Noun

tapes

1. plural of tapa

Verb

tapes

1. second-person singular present indicative of tapar

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

tapes

1. plural of tape

French

Verb

tapes

1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of taper

Anagrams

• pâtes, pâtés, pesât, pesta, pétas

Galician

Verb

tapes

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of tapar

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τάπης (tápēs, “carpet, rug”); see there for more.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈta.peːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtaː.pes]

Noun

tapēs m (genitive tapētis); third declension

1. rug, carpet
2. tapestry, hanging

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	tapēs	tapētēs
genitive	tapētis	tapētum
dative	tapētī	tapētibus
accusative	tapētem	tapētēs
ablative	tapēte	tapētibus
vocative	tapēs	tapētēs

Derived terms

• tapēte
• tapētum
• tappetium

Descendants

• Old French: tapiz
  • Middle French: tapiz
    • French: tapis
      • → Nafaanra: tapis
  • → Catalan: tapís
  • → Spanish: tapiz
• Friulian: tapêt
• Italian: tappeto
• Piedmontese: tapiss
• Old Galician-Portuguese: tapete, tapede
  • Galician: tapete
  • Portuguese: tapete
• → Spanish: tapete
  • → Catalan: tapet
  • → Tarifit: ṭappiṭ
• → English: tapetum (learned)
• → Proto-West Germanic: *tapped, *tapēd (see there for further descendants)
• → German: Tapete

References

• “tapes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle English

Noun

tapes

1. plural of tape

Portuguese

Verb

tapes

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of tapar

Spanish

Noun

tapes m pl

1. plural of tape

Verb

tapes

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of tapar