"clavichord" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈklæv.ɪˌkɔːd/ [UK], /ˈklæv.ɪˌkɔɹd/ [US] Forms: clavichords [plural]
Etymology: From German Klavichord, from Renaissance Latin clavichordium, from clāvis (“key”) + chorda (“cord, string”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|de|Klavichord}} German Klavichord, {{der|en|RL.|clavichordium}} Renaissance Latin clavichordium, {{root|en|ine-pro|*(s)kleh₂w-}} Head templates: {{en-noun}} clavichord (plural clavichords)
  1. (music) An early keyboard instrument producing a soft sound by means of metal blades (called tangents) attached to the inner ends of the keys gently striking the strings. Categories (topical): Musical instruments Synonyms: manichord Derived forms: clavichordist, clavinet Coordinate_terms (instrument): harpsichord, piano, spinet Translations (early keyboard instrument): կլավիկորդ (klavikord) (Armenian), clavicordi [masculine] (Catalan), 古鋼琴 (Chinese Mandarin), 古钢琴 (gǔgāngqín) (Chinese Mandarin), klavichord [neuter] (Danish), klavechord [neuter] (Dutch), klavichord [neuter] (Dutch), klavikord (Estonian), klavikordi (Finnish), clavicorde (French), manicordion (French), კლავიკორდი (ḳlaviḳordi) (Georgian), Clavichord [neuter] (German), Klavichord [neuter] (German), klavikord (Hungarian), clabhchorda [masculine] (Irish), clavicordo [masculine] (Italian), clavicordio [masculine] (Italian), clavichordium (english: Renaissance) [neuter] (Latin), klavikordas (Lithuanian), klawikord [masculine] (Polish), clavicórdio [masculine] (Portuguese), clavicord [neuter] (Romanian), клавико́рд (klavikórd) [masculine] (Russian), clavicordio [masculine] (Spanish), klavikord [neuter] (Swedish), klabikordyo (Tagalog)

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.