The corpus record — Latin

tapete

tapete · n

a carpet

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Divus Aurelianus 1 · 1.28/10k
Argonautica 3 · 0.81/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 40 1 · 0.68/10k
Aeneid 2 · 0.32/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

tăpēte — Lewis & Short

tăpēte, is, n. (

I sing. acc. m. tapeta fulgentem, Sil. 4, 270; plur. tapetia, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 14; id. Stich. 2, 2, 54; Vulg. 2 Reg. 17, 28; but nom. tapeta, from unused tapetum, Lucil. ap. Prob. p. 130: tapetae, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 351 Müll.; Placid. Gloss.; acc. m. tapetas pulcros, Verg. A. 9, 358; abl. tapetibus, id. ib. 9, 325; Liv. 40, 24, 7; Ov. M. 13, 638; Varr ap. Non. 542, 15: tapetis, Verg. A. 7, 277 Serv. ad loc.; Mart. 14, 147, 1; cf. the Gr. forms from ta/phs, and v. Neue, Formenl. 2, 570 sq.); cloth wrought with figures in different colors, for covering walls, floors, tables, couches, etc., a carpet, tapestry, hangings, coverlet, etc. (syn. stragulum); sing. nom. tapete, Turp. and Caecil. ap. Non. 229, 7, and 542, 18; abl. tapete, Sil. 17, 64.

In the wild

tapetibus Vergil, Aeneid 9.325
tapetibus Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 4.487
tapetis Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 11_13.87.8
tapetis Martial, Epigrammata 14.147.1
tapetibus Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.638
tapete Silius Italicus, Punica 17.64

6 of 17 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.