clavier

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French clavier (“keyboard”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin clavis (“key”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Noun

clavier (plural claviers)

1. (music) The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium.

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “clavier”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• caliver, caviler, valeric, velaric

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French

Etymology

Formed from the root of Latin clāvis (whence French clef), with the suffix -ier. Cf. also Medieval Latin clāvārius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kla.vje/

• Audio (France, Paris):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -e
• Homophone: claviers

Noun

clavier m (plural claviers)

1. keyboard (of a computer)
2. keyboard (musical instrument)
3. (archaic) keyring

Derived terms

• clavarder
• claviériste

Further reading

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