Etymology

tapestry

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Today it means: A heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls. Full definition →

Middle English tapestrie ← Old French tapisserie ← Ancient Greek τάπης
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The story

  1. Iranian · derived from
  2. Ancient Greek · derived fromτάπης
  3. Old French · derived fromtapisserie“tapestry”
  4. Middle English · inherited fromtapestrie
  5. English todaytapestry

From Middle English tapestrie, from Old French tapisserie (“tapestry”), from Ancient Greek τάπης (tápēs), from an Iranian source.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekτάπης all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.