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tecla

See also: Tecla

Asturian edit

Noun edit

tecla f (plural tecles)

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

Catalan edit

Etymology edit

See Portuguese and Spanish tecla.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

tecla f (plural tecles)

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

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

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

Portuguese edit

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: te‧cla

Etymology 1 edit

 
teclas

From Medieval Latin thēcula, diminutive of Latin thēca (“box”),[1] perhaps blended with a descendant of Latin tēgula (“tile”).

Noun edit

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 edit

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tecla.

Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

tecla

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

References edit

  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 edit

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Medieval Latin thēcula, diminutive of Latin thēca (“box”),[1] perhaps blended with a descendant of Latin tēgula (“tile”).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈtekla/ [ˈt̪e.kla]
  • Rhymes: -ekla
  • Syllabification: te‧cla

Noun edit

tecla f (plural teclas)

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

Derived terms edit

Adjective edit

tecla f

  1. feminine singular of teclo

See also edit

References edit

  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 edit

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