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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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?st/
• Rhymes: -?st
• (South African) IPA^(key): /test/

Etymology 1

From Middle English test, teste, from Old French test, teste (“an earthen vessel, especially a pot in which metals were tried”), from Latin testum (“the lid of an earthen vessel, an earthen vessel, an earthen pot”), from *terstus, past participle of the root *tersa (“dry land”). See terra, thirst.

Noun

test (plural tests)

1. A challenge, trial.
2. A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
3. (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
4. A session in which a product or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
5. (cricket, normally “Test”) A Test match.
6. (marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.
7. (botany) Testa; seed coat.
8. (obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.

Synonyms

• (challenge, trial): See Thesaurus:test
• (academics: examination): examination, quiz

Antonyms

• (academics: examination): recess

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

test (third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)

1. To challenge.

   Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.

2. To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
3. To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.

   to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument

   • September 17, 1796, George Washington, Farewell Address

     Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution.

4. (academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
5. To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
6. (copulative) To be shown to be by test.
   • 2015, Leta Stetter Hollingworth, Harry Levi Hollingworth, Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development

     It is probable that children who test above 180 IQ are actually present in our juvenile population in greater frequency than at the rate of one in a million.

7. (chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.

   to test a solution by litmus paper

Descendants

• German: testen

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English teste, from Old French teste, test and Latin testis (“one who attests, a witness”).

Noun

test (plural tests)

1. (obsolete) A witness.
   • 1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles

     Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety tests of that deed.

Verb

test (third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To make a testament, or will.

Related terms

• attest
• contest
• detest
• protest

Etymology 3

Clipping of testosterone.

Noun

test (uncountable)

1. (informal, slang, body building) testosterone

Further reading

• test in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• test in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• ETTs, Etts, TETS, TETs, Tets, sett, stet, tets

Breton

Noun

test

1. witness

Catalan

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.). Compare Spanish tiesto

Noun

test m (plural testos)

1. flowerpot
2. piece of clay

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

test m (plural tests)

1. test (exam or challenge)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?st]
• Hyphenation: test

Noun

test m inan

1. test

Declension

Derived terms

• testovat
• testovací
• testový

Further reading

• test in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• test in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From English test.

Noun

test

1. test (clarification of this definition is needed)

Further reading

• “test” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?st/
• Hyphenation: test
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English test.

Noun

test m (plural testen or tests, diminutive testje n)

1. test

Synonyms

• experiment
• proef

Derived terms

• geluidstest
• piepjestest
• shuttleruntest
• sneltest
• testen

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: tes

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch test, from Old French test, from Latin testum, from testa.

Noun

test m (plural testen or tests, diminutive testje n)

1. A test, an earthen bowl or pot.
2. A test, a cupel (used in smelting).

Derived terms

• vergiettest
• vuurtest

Descendants

• Afrikaans: tessie

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?st/

Etymology 1

From Old French test, from Latin testum. The orthography of this form reflects semi-learned influence; compare the doublet têt.

Noun

test m (plural tests)

1. test, a cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
2. (marine biology) test, the external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English test, itself from the same Old French test as above.

Noun

test m (plural tests)

1. a test, a tryout, a review

Derived terms

• tester

Further reading

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

Hungarian

Etymology

Of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t??t]
• Hyphenation: test
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

test (plural testek)

1. (anatomy) body
2. (geometry) solid (three-dimensional figure)
3. (algebra) field (commutative ring)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• test in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English test.

Noun

test m (invariable)

1. test

Ladin

Noun

test m (plural [please provide])

1. text

Latvian

Verb

test (?? missing information., ?? conj., pres. ??, past ??)

1. to beat
2. to knock about
3. to flog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From English test

Noun

test m (definite singular testen, indefinite plural tester, definite plural testene)

1. a test

Derived terms

• synstest

Related terms

• teste

Etymology 2

Verb

test

1. imperative of teste

References

• “test” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English test

Noun

test m (definite singular testen, indefinite plural testar, definite plural testane)

1. a test

Derived terms

• synstest

References

• “test” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin testum.

Noun

test m (oblique plural tez or tetz, nominative singular tez or tetz, nominative plural test)

1. (uncountable) clay
2. (countable) a pot, usually made out of clay

Descendants

• French: test
• French: têt
• ? Middle English: test
  • English: test (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: test
• ? Middle High German: test
  • German: Test

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (test)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?st/

Noun

test m inan

1. test

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From French test.

Noun

test n (plural teste)

1. test

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /têst/

Noun

t?st m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. test (challenge, trial)
2. test (academics)
3. test (product examination)

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?test/, [?t?est?]

Noun

test m (plural tests)

1. test

   Synonym: prueba

Swedish

Noun

test c or n

1. a test, an examination, a trial
2. a test, an attempt, an experiment
3. a piece of hair c

Declension

Synonyms

• examen
• försök
• experiment
• prov
• skrivning
• tofs
• tuss

Related terms

• betatest
• hårtest
• testa

Anagrams

• sett

Turkish

Etymology

From English test.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?test/
• Hyphenation: test

Noun

test (definite accusative testi, plural testler)

1. test

Declension

Derived terms