claveau

French

Etymology

From Old French clavel, from Vulgar Latin *clavellus (compare Italian chiavello, chiavella), from Latin clavus.

Noun

claveau m (plural claveaux)

1. (architecture) keystone

Further reading

• “claveau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.