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(Inglese)

(declension-3) a key
(abbreviation, alt-of, declension-3, ellipsis) ellipsis of clāvis trochī, an instrument in the form of a key, by which a top was set in motion
(declension-3) a lever or bar for tightening a screw press

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[ˈkɫaː.wɪs]

From Proto-Italic *klāwis. Either a secondary i-stem derivation of the Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u- (“nail, pin, hook - instruments, of old use for locking doors”) which gave also Latin clāvus (“nail”), an inherited Indo-European word originally denoting an instrument for unlocking doors, or a loanword from dialectal Ancient Greek *κλᾱϝίς (*klāwís) (Classical κλείς (kleís)), from the same Proto-Indo-European root.