Taste

Meaning

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

Concepts

key

🔑

button

pushbutton

bar

hit

push-button

push-button control

button

key

🔑

Synonyms

Knopf

Taster

Klaviertaste

Schaltfläche

Druckschalter

Schalter

Button

Druckknopf

Tastknopf

Klappe

Klinke

Knospe

Drucktaste

Drucktaster

Translations

tecla

🔑

touche

toets

tasto

🔑

tecla

🔑

tuş

πλήκτρο

botão

botón

tecla

🔑

bouton

bottone

knop

Dialects

Zürich

taschte

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtastə/

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.