clef

• cleff, cliff (both obsolete)

Borrowed from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Latin clāvis (“a key”).

• IPA^(key): /klɛf/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛf

clef (plural clefs)

1. A symbol found on a musical staff that indicates the pitches represented by the lines and the spaces on the staff [from 16th c.]

• clave

See clé.

• IPA^(key): /kle/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: clé, clefs, clés

clef f (plural clefs)

1. Alternative spelling of clé (“key”)
2. (music) clef
3. (heraldry) key; the device as shown on a coat of arms

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

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

clef f (plural clefs)

1. key

clef m or f (invariable)

1. key (vitally important)

• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

From Latin clāvem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈklɛf/

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

1. key

• Angevin: quié, quief
• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
• Gallo: tié
• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
• Walloon: clé
• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)