Noun: chave
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | chave |
| Plural f | chaves |
Sample Sentences
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Chave do portão (Key to the gate)
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Chave do carro (Car key)
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Chave de fenda/chave de fendas (Screwdriver)
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Coloque o valor entre chaves. (Put the value between curly brackets.)
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Terminar dentro do prazo é a chave para o sucesso. (Finishing within schedule is the key to success.)
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chave dicotômica/dicotómica (dichotomous key)
Nouns inflected like chave
palestra,
indumentária,
metafísica,
histerectomia,
cumplicidade,
serifa,
sestra,
secura,
semana,
estrebaria,
estreiteza,
savana,
saroba,
sapata,
safena,
safira,
militança,
sacada,
sacola,
sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Old Galician-Portuguese chave (“key”), from Latin clāvis (“key”), from Proto-Italic *klāwis (“bolt, lock, bar”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂w- (“nail, pin, hook - instruments, of old use for locking doors”) (possibly through an Ancient Greek intermediate). Doublet of clave, a learned borrowing.
2. Cognate with Galician chave, Spanish llave, Catalan and Occitan clau, French clé, Italian chiave and Romanian cheie. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
chave', Latin Nouns '
clāvis', Galician Nouns '
chave', Spanish Nouns '
llave', French Nouns '
clé', Italian Nouns '
chiave', Romanian Nouns '
cheie'.
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