Key

"Key" in Italian

chiave

(indispensable)

chiave

(important)

essenziale

(indispensable)

indispensabile

(indispensable)

chiave

(device designed to open and close a lock)

chiave

(crucial step)

chiave

(scale of musical notes)

chiave

(cryptography: piece of information used to encode or decode)

chiave

(computing: field of a database constrained to be unique)

chiave

(computing: field in a record used as a search argument)

chiave

(computing: value uniquely identifying entry in associative array)

cruciale

(crucial step)

legenda

(small guide explaining symbols or terminology)

tasto

(button on a typewriter or computer keyboard)

tasto

(part of a piano or musical keyboard)

tasto telegrafico

(device used to transmit Morse code)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.