tecla

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Asturian

Noun

tecla f (plural tecles)

  1. key, button (on a machine or musical instrument)

Catalan

Etymology

See Portuguese and Spanish tecla.

Pronunciation

Noun

tecla f (plural tecles)

  1. key, button (on a machine or instrument)

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “tecla” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

See Portuguese and Spanish tecla.

Pronunciation

Noun

tecla f (plural teclas)

  1. key (button on a typewriter or computer keyboard)
  2. (music) key (one of a number of rectangular moving parts on a piano or musical keyboard)

Derived terms

References

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛklɐ
  • Hyphenation: te‧cla

Etymology 1

teclas

From Medieval Latin thēcula, diminutive of Latin thēca (“box”), perhaps blended with a descendant of Latin tēgula (“tile”).

Noun

tecla f (plural teclas)

  1. key (button on a typewriter or computer keyboard)
  2. (music) key (one of a number of rectangular moving parts on a piano or musical keyboard)
Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tecla.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

tecla

  1. inflection of teclar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

  1. ^ Corriente, Federico (2008) “tecla”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

Further reading

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin thēcula, diminutive of Latin thēca (“box”), perhaps blended with a descendant of Latin tēgula (“tile”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtekla/
  • Rhymes: -ekla
  • Syllabification: te‧cla

Noun

tecla f (plural teclas)

  1. key, button (on a machine or instrument)
  2. trigger; button (delicate topic)

Derived terms

Adjective

tecla f

  1. feminine singular of teclo

See also

References

  1. ^ Corriente, Federico (2008) “tecla”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

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