Taste

See also: taste and tāste

German

Etymology

From Italian tasto (“key”), from the verb tastare, from Vulgar Latin *tastāre (“to touch, feel”), from *taxitāre, from Latin taxāre (“to touch sharply”), from tangere (“to touch”). Related with older German tasten, which is from the same Latin verb through Old French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtastə/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Hyphenation: Tas‧te

Noun

Taste f (genitive Taste, plural Tasten)

1. key, button (on a piano, keyboard, etc.)

Declension

Declension of Taste [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Taste	die	Tasten
genitive	einer	der	Taste	der	Tasten
dative	einer	der	Taste	den	Tasten
accusative	eine	die	Taste	die	Tasten

Hyponyms

• Drucktaste, Eingabetaste, Leertaste, Löschtaste
• (keyboard keys) Umschalttaste; Alt, Einfg, Entf, Strg

Derived terms

• Tastatur
• tasten

Related terms

• Tastenbelegung, Tasteninstrument

Further reading

• “Taste”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Taste” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Taste” in Duden online