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English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?st?/
• Rhymes: -?st?(r)

Etymology 1

Probably from Old French testre, from Latin testa.

Noun

tester (plural testers)

1. A canopy over a bed.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.13:

     And I could as hardly spare my gloves as my shirt, or forbeare washing of my hands both in the mornng and rising from the table, or lye in a bed without a testerne and curtaines about it, as of most necessary things.

   • October 3, 1743, Horace Walpole, letter to Horace Mann

     No tester to the bed, and the saddles and portmanteaus heaped on me to keep off the cold.
2. Something that overhangs something else; especially a canopy or soundboard over a pulpit.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 11:

     With our shaggy jackets drawn about our shoulders, we now passed the Tomahawk from one to the other, till slowly there grew over us a blue hanging tester of smoke, illuminated by the flame of the new-lit lamp.

Etymology 2

From test +? -er.

Noun

tester (plural testers)

1. A person who administers a test.
2. A device used for testing.
3. (Australia, slang, obsolete) A punishment of 25 lashes (strokes of a whip) across a person?s back.
4. A sample of perfume available in a shop for customers to try before they buy.
5. (cycling) A cyclist who focuses on success in time trials.

Synonyms

• (punishment) Botany Bay dozen

Hyponyms

• software tester

Translations

Etymology 3

For testern, teston, from French teston, from Old French teste (“the head, the head of the king being impressed upon the coin”). See tester (“a covering”), and compare testone, testoon.

Noun

tester (plural testers)

1. An old French silver coin.
2. (Britain, slang, dated) A sixpence.

   Synonyms: teston, tizzy

References

Anagrams

• Setter, Street, Teters, retest, setter, street

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?s.te/

Etymology 1

test +? -er

Verb

tester

1. to test

Conjugation

Etymology 2

From Latin testor.

Verb

tester

1. (law) to write one's will

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

tester

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of testor

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

tester m

1. indefinite plural of test

Verb

tester

1. present of teste

Romanian

Etymology

From English tester.

Noun

tester n (plural testere)

1. tester

Declension

Swedish

Noun

tester

1. indefinite plural of test

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