The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromτάπης
- Latin · borrowed fromtapētum
- English todaytapetum
From Latin tapētum. Further from Ancient Greek τάπης (tápēs). Doublet of tapet.
Words from the same roots
Latintapētum all →
tapettapetum lucidum
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.