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English

Alternative forms

• tast (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English tasten, borrowed from Old French taster, from assumed Vulgar Latin *tast?re, from assumed Vulgar Latin *taxit?re, a new iterative of Latin tax?re (“to touch sharply”), from tangere (“to touch”). Almost displaced native Middle English smaken, smakien (“to taste”) (from Old English smacian (“to taste”)), Middle English smecchen (“to taste, smack”) (from Old English smæ??an (“to taste”)) (whence Modern English smack), Middle English buri?en (“to taste”) (from Old English byrigan, birian (“to taste”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te?st/
• Rhymes: -e?st

Noun

taste (countable and uncountable, plural tastes)

1. One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.

2. The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.

3. A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.
4. (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.

   • "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […]."
5. Personal preference; liking; predilection.

6. (uncountable, figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.
7. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.

Synonyms

• (sensation produced by the tongue): smack, smatch; See also Thesaurus:gustation
• (set of preferences): discernment, culture, refinement, style
• (personal preference): See also Thesaurus:predilection
• (small amount of experience): impression, sample, trial

Hyponyms

• (sensation produced by the tongue): relish, savor

Meronyms

• (sensation produced by the tongue): bitter, salty, sour, sweet, umami

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

taste (third-person singular simple present tastes, present participle tasting, simple past and past participle tasted)

1. (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.

   • when the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine

2. (intransitive, copulative) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavour is distinguished.

   The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic.

3. To experience.

   I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise.

   They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

   • He […] should taste death for every man.
4. To take sparingly.
   • 1699, John Dryden, Epistle to John Drydentastes%20of%20pleasures%2C%20youth%20devours%22&f=false

     Age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours.

5. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.

   • I tasted a little of this honey.

6. (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.

Synonyms

• (sample the flavor of something): smack, smake; See also Thesaurus:taste
• (have a taste): hint, smack; See also Thesaurus:have taste

Translations

Further reading

• taste in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• taste in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• taste at OneLook Dictionary Search
• "taste" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 313.

Anagrams

• Satet, State, Testa, Tetas, aetts, atest, state, teats, testa

Danish

Etymology

From the noun tast.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ast?

Verb

taste (imperative tast, infinitive at taste, present tense taster, past tense tastede, perfect tense har/er tastet)

1. To type

Conjugation

Derived terms

• indtaste

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

taste

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of tasten

German

Pronunciation

Verb

taste

1. inflection of tasten:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

taste (imperative tast, present tense taster, passive tastes, simple past and past participle tasta or tastet, present participle tastende)

1. to type (on a computer keyboard or typewriter)

Related terms

• tast (noun)
• tastatur

References

• “taste” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• tast, taist

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French tast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?st/, /tast/

Noun

taste (uncountable)

1. perceived flavor

Descendants

• English: taste
• Yola: taaste, tawest, thaaste

References

• “t??st(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

taste (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. vocative singular of tast

English

Etymology

So called from Latin teste, ablative of testis (“a witness”), because this was formerly the initial word in the clause.

Noun

teste (plural testes)

1. (law) A witness.
2. The witnessing or concluding clause, duty attached; said of a writ, deed, etc.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)

See also

• testes

Anagrams

• teest, teets

Corsican

Etymology

From English teste, perhaps via or else akin to Italian teste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?ste/
• Hyphenation: tes?te

Noun

teste m (plural testi)

1. test, testing

French

Noun

teste f (plural testes)

1. Obsolete spelling of tête

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• tètes, tétés, têtes

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin testa.

Noun

teste f (plural testis)

1. (rare) head

Synonyms

• cjâf
• (informal, colloquial, or humorous) burele, capadocie, cassele, coce, çucje, çurie, maçocje, melonarie

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?st?]

Verb

teste

1. inflection of testen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Hungarian

Etymology

test +? -e (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t??t?]
• Hyphenation: tes?te

Noun

teste

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of test

Declension

Interlingua

Noun

teste (plural testes)

1. witness
2. (anatomy) testicle, testis

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?s.te/
• Hyphenation: tè?ste

Etymology 1

From Latin testis, from earlier *terstis ? *tristis, from Proto-Indo-European *tristh?s (“a third party standing, after the two parties to a contract or dispute”), from *tréyes (“three”) and *steh?- (“to stand”).

Noun

teste m or f (plural testi)

1. (law) witness

   Synonym: testimone

Related terms

• testimone
• testimonianza
• testimoniare
• testimonio

Etymology 2

From English test.

Noun

teste m (plural testi)

1. (rare) test

   Synonym: test

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

teste f pl

1. plural of testa

Anagrams

• sette

References

• teste¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• teste² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Noun

teste

1. ablative singular of testis

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French teste.

Noun

teste f (plural testes)

1. head
   • .

Descendants

• French: tête

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English test

Verb

teste (imperative test, present tense tester, passive testes, simple past and past participle testa or testet, present participle testende)

1. to test (something)

Derived terms

• utestet

Related terms

• test (noun)

References

• “teste” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin testa.

Noun

teste f (oblique plural testes, nominative singular teste, nominative plural testes)

1. head
   • c. 1170,, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     La teste li eüst copee

     He cut off his head

Descendants

• Middle French: teste
  • French: tête
• Norman: tête, teet
• Walloon: tiesse

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Latin testis (“witness”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?t??.t?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?t?s.t??i/
  • (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?t?s.te/
• Hyphenation: tes?te

Noun

teste m (plural testes)

1. (antiquated) witness

Related terms

• testar
• testemunho
• testificar

Etymology 2

From English test.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?t?s.t??i/, /?t??.t??i/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?t??.t?/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?t?s.te/
• Hyphenation: tes?te

Noun

teste m (plural testes)

1. (education) test (academic examination)

   Synonyms: avaliação, ensaio, exame, prova

2. test (session in which something or someone is examined under various conditions)

   Synonym: avaliação

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:teste.

Derived terms

• teste de Rorschach
• teste psicotécnico

Related terms

Verb

teste

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of testar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of testar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of testar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of testar

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:testar.

References

• Infopedia

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (deste, teste), from Persian ????? (dasta).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?ste/

Noun

tèste n (Cyrillic spelling ?????) (archaic)

1. dozen, a bundle of twelve

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?teste/, [?t?es.t?e]
• Rhymes: -este
• Hyphenation: tes?te

Etymology 1

From Latin testis.

Noun

teste f (plural testes)

1. (anatomy) testicle

   Synonym: testículo

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

teste

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of testar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of testar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of testar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of testar.

Tarantino

Noun

teste

1. text

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tes?te/
• Hyphenation: tes?te

Noun

teste

1. dative singular of test