carpet

Meanings

Noun

• A fabric used as a complete floor covering.
• Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function.
• Any of a number of moths in the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae (subfamily)
• A wrought cover for tables.
• A woman's pubic hair.

Verb

• To lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area.
• To substantially cover something, as a carpet does; to blanket something.
• To reprimand.

Origin

• From late Middle English carpette, from Old French carpite, from Medieval Latin carpita/Italian carpita, introduced in the 13th century by the Florentines from the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, from Middle Armenian կարպետ, earlier կապերտ.