clavier

Borrowed from French clavier (“keyboard”), from Latin clavis (“key”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈklævɪə(ɹ)/, /kləˈvɪə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ævɪə(ɹ), -ɪə(ɹ)

clavier (plural claviers)

1. (music) The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium.
   • 1870, A Description of the Grand Organ in the Town Hall, Leeds:

     […] play certain of the stops in octaves to each other, while merely touching single notes on the clavier

• clavichord
• clavicle
• clavis
• nom de clavier

clavier in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• caliver, caviler, valeric, velaric

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

• IPA^(key): /kla.vje/

• Audio (France, Paris)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -e
• Homophone: claviers

clavier m (plural claviers)

1. keyboard (of a computer)
2. keyboard (musical instrument)
3. (archaic) keyring
4. (slang) mouth, teeth

• clavarder
• claviériste
• raccourci clavier

• → English: clavier
• → German: Klavier
  • → Romanian: clavir
• → Turkish: klavye

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