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testa
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin testa.
Noun
testa (plural testas or testae or testæ)
- (botany) A seed coat.
- The testa develops from the tissue, the integument, originally surrounding the ovule.
- 1840, James Scott Bowerbank, A History of the Fossil Fruits and Seeds of the London Clay, page 30,
- The seeds are furnished with a reticulated testa, very much in appearance like that of the seeds of two closely-allied pericarps in the cabinet of my friend Mr. Ward, of Wellclose-square, the names of which I have been unable to obtain, but which present strong evidence of belonging to the Malvaceæ.
- 1969, C. W. Bennett, Seed Transmission of Plant Viruses, Alison Smith, Advances in Virus Research, Volume 14, page 224,
- In tests with the Lincoln and Virginia varieties of cowpea, Crowley (1959) found that, in plants infected with bean southern mosaic virus before blossoming, the virus was present in nearly 100% of the testae and endosperms of seeds of both varieties, but could not be detected in the embryos.
- 1977, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australian Journal of Plant Physiology, page 354,
- Thus, two conditions must be satisfied for the testas to have this effect: contact between the testas and the radicle, and the presence of at least half of the testas.
- 2005, D. W. Dickson, D. De Waele, Nematode Parasites of Peanut, Michel Luc, Richard A. Sikora, John Bridge, Plant Parasitic Nematodes in Subtropical and Tropical Agriculture, page 419,
- A.[Aphelenchoides] arachidis is a parasite of pods, testae, roots and hypocotyls, but not the cotyledons, embryos or other parts of the plant (Bos, 1977a; Bridge et al., 1977).
- 2007, J. Smartt, Evolution of American Phaseolus beans under domestication, Peter John Ucko, G. W. Dimbleby (editors), The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals, page 458,
- One of the most remarkable features of cultivated beans is the enormous range of testa colours and patterns which can be found.
- (marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm; the test.
Anagrams
- Satet, State, Tetas, aetts, atest, state, taste, teats
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?s.ta/
Verb
testa
- third-person singular past historic of tester
Anagrams
- états, tâtes, tétas
Galician
Etymology 1
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese testa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin testa (“earthen pot”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?sta?/
Noun
testa f (plural testas)
- forehead
- 1390, José Luís Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 133:
- Et avia ?no rrostro h?u palmo et meo en longo et ?na barua h?u palmo, et ?no nariz h?u meo palmo; et ?na testa h?u palmo et pouquo mais
- He had a palmspan and a half in his face, and in the beard a palmspan, and half one in the nose; and in the front he had one palmspan and a little more
- Et avia ?no rrostro h?u palmo et meo en longo et ?na barua h?u palmo, et ?no nariz h?u meo palmo; et ?na testa h?u palmo et pouquo mais
- 1434, A. López Carreira (ed.), Libro de Notas de Álvaro Afonso, doc. 90:
- os quaes roçiins era huun delles ven preto con hun signal enna testa et ho outro ben çerbyño con huna mancha enna testa
- one of that horses was really dark, with a signal in his forehead, and the other was tawny with a spot in his forehead
- os quaes roçiins era huun delles ven preto con hun signal enna testa et ho outro ben çerbyño con huna mancha enna testa
- Synonym: fronte
- 1390, José Luís Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 133:
- (figuratively) the whole head of a person
- 1697, several authors, Fiestas Minervales. Santiago: Antonio Frayz, page 34:
- Dubido do que farei / Para saír desta enfeita / Maxino roer as uñas / E bourar mui ben na testa
- I'm dubious on what to do / To exit of this preparation / I imagine gnawing my nails / And ably beating my head
- Dubido do que farei / Para saír desta enfeita / Maxino roer as uñas / E bourar mui ben na testa
- Synonyms: cabeza, cachola, croca
- 1697, several authors, Fiestas Minervales. Santiago: Antonio Frayz, page 34:
- limit of a property
- Synonyms: derrego, estremeiro, límite, lindeiro
- fore
- Synonym: fronte
- lid
- Synonym: tello
Derived terms
- entestar
- testalán
- testán
- testar
Etymology 2
From Latin texta (“woven”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?testa?/
Adjective
testa f sg
- thick, dense (feminine singular of testo)
References
- “testa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “testa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “testa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “testa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “testa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?s.ta/
- Rhymes: -?sta
- Hyphenation: tè?sta
Etymology 1
From Latin testa. The semantic development is earthen pot ? skull ? head.
Noun
testa f (plural teste)
- head, obverse
- (anatomy) head (of a bone)
- (rail transport, only singular, uncountable) head (of a train), the first car(s)
- Antonym: coda
Synonyms
- (part of the body): capo
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Alemannic German: Teste
- ? Spanish: testa
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
testa
- inflection of testare:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
- setta, state
Latin
Etymology
- Perhaps as if tosta, from torre? (“to burn, parch”).
- Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *t?t?-t-, from *tet?- (“to create, produce”) (whence Latin tex? (“to weave”)). Thus cognate with Middle Persian tšt' (tašt).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?tes.ta/, [?t??s?t?ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?tes.ta/, [?t??st??]
Noun
testa f (genitive testae); first declension
- a piece of burned clay, brick, tile
- (transferred sense) a piece of baked earthenware
- an earthen pot, pitcher, jug, urn
- a sherd, potsherd
- a piece of bone
- ostracon (= ???????? (óstrakon))
- the shell of shellfish or of testaceous animals, shellfish, skull
- a sort of clapping with the flat of the hands (as if with two tiles), in token of applause, invented by Nero
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
- test?/ testum
- test?d?
- testula
Related terms
- testu?tium
- test?dine?tus
- test?dineus
Descendants
- Eastern Romance:
- Romanian: ?east?
- Istriot: tiesta
- Italian: testa
- ? Alemannic German: Teste
- ? Spanish: testa
- Ligurian: tésta
- Old French: teste
- Middle French: teste
- French: tête
- Norman: tête, teet
- Walloon: tiesse
- Middle French: teste
- Old Leonese: [Term?]
- Asturian: tiesta
- Leonese: tiesta
- Old Occitan: [Term?]
- Catalan: testa
- Occitan: tèsta, testa (Limousin)
- Old Portuguese: testa
- Galician: testa
- Portuguese: testa
- Old Spanish: [Term?]
- Spanish: tiesta
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: teste
- Romansch: testa
- Sicilian: testa
- Venetian: testa
References
- testa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- testa in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- testa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- testa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- testa in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- testa in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- testa in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Latvian
Noun
testa m
- genitive singular form of tests
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- testet
Verb
testa
- inflection of teste:
- simple past
- past participle
Old Occitan
Etymology
From Latin testa.
Noun
testa f (oblique plural testas, nominative singular testa, nominative plural testas)
- head
Descendants
- Catalan: testa
- Occitan: tèsta, testa (Limousin)
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: tes?ta
Etymology 1
From Old Portuguese testa, from Latin testa.
Noun
testa f (plural testas)
- forehead (part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline)
Derived terms
- testinha
- testudo
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
testa
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of testar
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of testar
Romanian
Etymology
From French tester.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /te?sta/
Verb
a testa (third-person singular present testeaz?, past participle testat) 1st conj.
- (transitive) to test; to try
- Synonym: încerca
Conjugation
References
- testa in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Romansch
Etymology
From Latin testa (“pot”).
Noun
testa f (plural testas)
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) head
Usage notes
In Rumantsch Grischun, the literary standard language, testa is used in the figurative sense, and chau in the anatomical sense. Usage differs somewhat, however, between dialects.
Synonyms
- (Rumantsch Grischun) chau
- (Sursilvan) tgau
- (Sutsilvan) tgieu
- (Surmiran) tgea
- (Puter) cho
- (Vallader) cheu
Sicilian
Etymology
From Latin testa (“brick”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t???s(?)ta/
- Hyphenation: te?sta
Noun
testa f (plural testi)
- (anatomy) head
- intelligent person
- intelligence
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?testa/, [?t?es.t?a]
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Italian testa, from Latin testa. Compare the inherited Old Spanish tiesta.
Noun
testa f (plural testas)
- head
- test (shell or endoskeleton of an echinoderm or certain plankton)
Etymology 2
Inflected form of testar.
Verb
testa
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of testar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of testar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of testar.
Derived terms
- testa coronada
- testa de ferro, testaferro
Swedish
Pronunciation
Verb
testa (present testar, preterite testade, supine testat, imperative testa)
- try, attempt; to see if a specific action is possible; also to see if a device works properly.
Conjugation
Anagrams
- etsat, ettas, satte
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vesta
English
Pronunciation
- (US, UK) IPA(key): /?v?st?/
- Rhymes: -?st?
Noun
vesta (plural vestas)
- a short match, made of wood or wax
Anagrams
- Avest., Sveta, evats, stave, vates
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?v?sta/
Noun
vesta f
- vest (US), waistcoat (UK)
Declension
Further reading
- vesta in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- vesta in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Emilian
Alternative forms
- vésta (Modenese)
- fsté?na (Bolognese)
- fté?na (Bolognese)
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ve?sta
Noun
vesta f (plural vesti) (Mantua)
- skirt
Synonyms
- sutàna (Modenese)
- stanèla (Modenese)
Italian
Verb
vesta
- first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive of vestire
- third person singular imperative of vestire
Anagrams
- vaste
Latvian
Participle
vesta
- genitive singular masculine form of vests
- nominative singular feminine form of vests
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) vista
Etymology
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Noun
vesta f (plural vestas)
- (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) view
- (anatomy, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) cheek
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From French veste
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?êsta/
- Homophones: V?sta
- Hyphenation: ves?ta
Noun
v?sta f (Cyrillic spelling ??????)
- vest (item of clothing)
Declension
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