clef
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English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle French clef, from Latin clāvis (“a key”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]clef (plural clefs)
- (music) A symbol found on a musical staff that indicates the pitches represented by the lines and the spaces on the staff [from 16th c.]
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]musical symbol
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]See clé.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]clef f (plural clefs)
- Alternative spelling of clé (“key”)
- (music) clef
- (heraldry) key; the device as shown on a coat of arms
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “clef”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French clef.
Noun
[edit]clef f (plural clefs)
Adjective
[edit]clef m or f (invariable)
- key (vitally important)
Descendants
[edit]Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]clef oblique singular, f (oblique plural cles, nominative singular clef, nominative plural cles)
Descendants
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- English terms borrowed from Middle French
- English terms derived from Middle French
- English terms derived from Latin
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)kleh₂w-
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- Rhymes:English/ɛf
- Rhymes:English/ɛf/1 syllable
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- English countable nouns
- en:Music
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- fr:Heraldic charges
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