clavier
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French clavier (“keyboard”), from Latin clavis (“key”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
clavier (plural claviers)
- (music) The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium.
- 1870, A Description of the Grand Organ in the Town Hall, Leeds:
- […] play certain of the stops in octaves to each other, while merely touching single notes on the clavier
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
“clavier”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Formed from the root of Latin clāvis (whence French clef), with the suffix -ier. Cf. also Medieval Latin clāvārius.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
clavier m (plural claviers)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → English: clavier
- → German: Klavier
- → Romanian: clavir
- → Portuguese: cravo
- → Swedish: klaver
- → Turkish: klavye
Further reading[edit]
- “clavier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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