tecla

tecla f (plural tecles)

1. key, button (on a machine or musical instrument)

See Portuguese and Spanish tecla.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈte.klə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈte.kla]

tecla f (plural tecles)

1. key, button (on a machine or instrument)

• teclat
• teclejar

• “tecla” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• Hyphenation: te‧cla

teclas

From Medieval Latin thēcula, diminutive of Latin thēca (“box”),[1] perhaps blended with a descendant of Latin tēgula (“tile”).

tecla f (plural teclas)

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

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tecla.

tecla

1. inflection of teclar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• tecla on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

Borrowed from Medieval Latin thēcula, diminutive of Latin thēca (“box”),[1] perhaps blended with a descendant of Latin tēgula (“tile”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtekla/ [ˈt̪e.kla]
• Rhymes: -ekla
• Syllabification: te‧cla

tecla f (plural teclas)

1. key, button (on a machine or instrument)

tecla f

1. feminine singular of teclo

• botón

• “tecla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014