claviatura

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /klaː.u̯i.aˈtuː.ra/, [kɫ̪äːu̯iäˈt̪uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kla.vi.aˈtu.ra/, [kläviäˈt̪uːrä]

clāviatūra f (genitive clāviatūrae); first declension

1. (New Latin, music) keyboard
   • 1688, Georg Falck, Idea Boni Cantoris, page 18:

     Informatoris (utpote cui vel Organi vel Inſtrumenti cujuslibet alterius Claviatura, hujusq́ue Con- & Diſſonantiæ exquiſitiſſimè notæ eſſe debent)

     […] according to this instructor (inasmuch as either the organ or any other instrument with a keyboard might not render the exact dissonances and consonances that are notated)

   • 1715, Thomas Balthasar Janovvka, Clavis ad Musicam in Elucidatione Potissimum Dictionum seu Terminorum Musicorum Consistens, page 284:

     Quod ſi verò c parvum ſonate putes, uſque ad d ſuperiùs ſupra claviaturæ Organicæ metam ſe extendet.

     If indeed you think that C is a small sound, it will extend up to D above the top of the organic keyboard.

   • 1719, Mauritius Vogt, Conclave Thesauri Magnæ Artis Musicæ, page 141:

     Organiſta debet à teneris ungviculis aſveſieri, qua manu, quô digitô, aut digitorum ordine percurrere debeat claviaturam: […]

     The organist must be accustomed to the delicate fingernails, with which hand, with which finger, or with which order of fingers he should traverse the keyboard: […]

First-declension noun.