The story
- Latin · derived fromclavis“key”
- French · borrowed fromclavier“keyboard”
- English todayclavier
Borrowed from French clavier (“keyboard”), from Latin clavis (“key”).
Words from the same roots
Frenchclavier all →
nom de clavier
Latinclavis all →
enclaveclefclaveautoclaveclavesclavisclaviatureclaviformclavilux
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.