tecla
See also: Tecla
Asturian
Noun
tecla f (plural tecles)
- key, button (on a machine or musical instrument)
Catalan
Etymology
See Portuguese or Spanish tecla.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /ˈte.klə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈte.kla/
Noun
tecla f (plural tecles)
- key, button (on a machine or instrument)
Derived terms
- teclat
- teclejar
Further reading
- “tecla” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɛ.klɐ/
- Hyphenation: te‧cla
Etymology 1
teclas
From Medieval Latin thēcula, diminutive of Latin thēca (“box”),[1] perhaps blended with a descendant of Latin tēgula (“tile”).
Noun
tecla f (plural teclas)
- key (button on a typewriter or computer keyboard)
- (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
- a mesma tecla
- tecladista
- teclado
- teclar
Verb
tecla
- inflection of teclar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
References
- 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
tecla on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt
Spanish
Etymology
From Medieval Latin thēcula, diminutive of Latin thēca (“box”),[1] perhaps blended with a descendant of Latin tēgula (“tile”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtekla/ [ˈt̪e.kla]
- Rhymes: -ekla
- Syllabification: te‧cla
Noun
tecla f (plural teclas)
- key, button (on a machine or instrument)
Derived terms
- tecla de borrado
- tecla de mayúsculas
- teclado
- tecla mayús
- tecla mayúsculas
- tecla shift
- teclear
Adjective
tecla f
- feminine singular of teclo
See also
- botón
References
- 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
- “tecla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014