Taste

== German == === Etymology === From Italian tasto (“key”), from the verb tastare, from Vulgar Latin *tastāre (“to touch, feel”), from *taxitāre, from Latin taxāre (“to touch sharply”), from tangere (“to touch”). Related with older German tasten, which is from the same Latin verb through Old French. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtastə/ Hyphenation: Tas‧te === Noun === Taste f (genitive Taste, plural Tasten) key, button (on a piano, keyboard, etc.) ==== Declension ==== ==== Hyponyms ==== Drucktaste, Eingabetaste, Leertaste, Löschtaste (keyboard keys) Umschalttaste; Alt, Einfg, Entf, Strg ==== Derived terms ==== Tastatur tasten ==== Related terms ==== Tastenbelegung, Tasteninstrument === Further reading === “Taste” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache “Taste” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “Taste” in Duden online