different between exam vs examen

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???zæm/, /???zæm/

Noun

exam (plural exams)

1. (informal) Clipping of examination, especially when meaning test or in compound terms.

Derived terms

Verb

exam (third-person singular simple present exams, present participle examming or examing, simple past and past participle exammed or examed)

1. (sciences) Shortened form of examine
   • doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0135795

     Thin sections were stained with lead citrate and then examed using 1200EX electron microscope (JEOL, Tokyo, Japan).

Anagrams

• AmEx

French

Noun

exam m (plural exams)

1. (informal) Short for examen.

English

Etymology

From Latin ex?men (“the tongue of a balance, examination”), for exagmen, from exigere (“to weigh accurately, to treat”): compare French examen. See exact.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ze?.m?n/

Noun

examen (plural examens)

1. (obsolete) examination; inquiry
   • July 11, 1780, William Cowper, letter to the Rev. William Unwin

     For this reason I decline answering the question with which you concluded your last, and cannot persuade myself to enter into a critical examen of the two pieces upon Lord Mansfield's loss […]

Anagrams

• axemen

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ex?men. Compare the inherited eixam.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /???za.m?n/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /e??za.men/

Noun

examen m (plural exàmens)

1. exam, test

Synonyms

• examinació

Derived terms

• examinar

Dutch

Alternative forms

• (before 1996) eksamen

Etymology

From Middle Dutch examen, from Latin ex?men.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k?sa?.m?(n)/
• Hyphenation: exa?men
• Rhymes: -a?m?n

Noun

examen n (plural examens or examina, diminutive examentje n)

1. exam, examination, major test

Synonyms

• tentamen

Derived terms

• eindexamen
• examenuitslag
• examineren
• kerstexamen
• paasexamen
• praktijkexamen
• rijexamen
• schoolexamen
• theorie-examen
• toelatingsexamen

Related terms

• examinator

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: eksamen

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ex?men. Doublet of essaim.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.za.m??/, /e?.za.m??/
• Homophone: examens

Noun

examen m (plural examens)

1. exam, test

Derived terms

• examen blanc
• examen médical
• examen d'admission
• examen d'entrée
• examen de conscience
• examen de la vue
• mettre en examen
• mise en examen

Further reading

• “examen” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Etymology

From ex- (“out”) +? ag? (“I drive”) +? -men. Compare the meanings again of weighing in Ancient Greek ??????? (áxios) of same root.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ek?sa?.men/, [?k?s?ä?m?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ek?sa.men/, [???z??m?n]

Noun

ex?men n (genitive ex?minis); third declension

1. swarm of bees; crowd
2. tongue of a balance
3. a consideration, an examining

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

• ex?min?

Descendants

References

• examen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• examen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• examen in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• examen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• examen in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• examen in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin, French ex?men.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [e??za.men]

Noun

examen n (plural examene)

1. exam, examination, test

Declension

Romansch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ex?men.

Noun

examen m (plural examens)

1. exam

Derived terms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) examen final, (Puter) examen finel (“final exam”)
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) examen da qualificaziun, (Sutsilvan) examen da qualificaziùn (“aptitude test, test of ability, occupational test”)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ex?men. Compare the inherited doublet enjambre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e??samen/, [e???sa.m?n]

Noun

examen m (plural exámenes)

1. exam, examination, test

Related terms

• examinar

Further reading

• “examen” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ex?men.

Pronunciation

Noun

examen c

1. exam
2. graduation
3. degree

   Den sökande bör ha en examen i ekonomi

   The applicant should have a degree in economics.

Declension

Synonyms

• (exam): examination

See also

• studenten
• tentamen