tecla

Meaning

Noun

1. (feminine) key (button on a typewriter or computer keyboard)
2. (feminine) key (one of a number of rectangular moving parts on a piano or musical keyboard)

Verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person) inflection of teclar:
2. (form-of, imperative, second-person, singular) inflection of teclar:

teclar

1. (intransitive) to type
2. (dated, intransitive) to text (to have a conversation through text messages)

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Concepts

key

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button

clef

key word

pushbutton

spanner

Synonyms

chave

🔑

botão de accionamento

Translations

tasto

🔑

touche

tecla

🔑

Taste

🔑

πλήκτρο

tecla

🔑

toets

مفتاح

🔑

clé

🔑

tuş

κλειδί

Schlüssel

🔑

llave

🔑

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtɛ.klɐ/

Etymology

From Medieval Latin thēcula, diminutive of Latin thēca (“box”), perhaps blended with a descendant of Latin tēgula (“tile”).