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See also: Teste, testé, and tešte

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛsti/, /ˈtɛsteɪ/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
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  • Homophone: testy

Noun

teste (plural testes)

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

See also

References

  1. ^ Alexander M Burrill (1850–1851) “TESTE”, in A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: , volumes (please specify |part= or |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: John S. Voorhies, , →OCLC.

Anagrams

Corsican

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛste/
  • Hyphenation: tes‧te

Noun

teste m (plural testi)

  1. test, testing
    • 2019, Zosimov Premudroslovsky StaVl, Mutanti Sovetti: Fantasia divertente, →ISBN:
      Luntanu, luntanu à a fruntiera di l'antica URSS (avà Kazakistan) è a Cina, in u sudeste di a regione Semipalatinsk, vicinu à a cità de Ayaguz, traduttu cum'è "Oh toro", ci era un terrenu di teste nucleare cù una atmosfera radioattiva infettata ottenuta da a negligenza di i schientifichi in opera.
      Far, far away on the border of the former USSR (now Kazakhstan) and China, in the southeast of the region Semipalatinsk, next to the city of Ayaguz, translated as "Oh toro", there was a terrain of nuclear testing with an infected radioactive atmosphere obtained due to the negligence of the scientists in operation.

Danish

Etymology

From English test, see there for further. Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål teste, Norwegian Nynorsk testa, Swedish testa (“'try, attempt'”), German testen.

Pronunciation

Verb

teste (past tense testede, past participle testet)

  1. (transitive) to test, examine
    Synonym: afprøve
  2. (intransitive) (mostly medical) to test, undergo testing, receive test results
    atleten testede positiv og blev diskvalificeret for doping
    the athlete tested positive and was disqualified for doping

Conjugation

Inflection of teste
present past
simple tester testede
perfect har testet havde testet
passive testes testedes
participle testende testet
imperative test —
infinitive teste —
auxiliary verb have —
gerund testen —

Derived terms

Related terms

References

French

Pronunciation

Noun

teste f (plural testes)

  1. Obsolete spelling of tête

Further reading

Anagrams

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin testa.

Noun

teste f (plural testis)

  1. (rare) head

Synonyms

Galician

Verb

teste

  1. inflection of testar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

German

Pronunciation

Verb

teste

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

Hungarian

Etymology

test (“body”) +‎ -e (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: tes‧te

Noun

teste

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

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative teste —
accusative testét —
dative testének —
instrumental testével —
causal-final testéért —
translative testévé —
terminative testéig —
essive-formal testeként —
essive-modal testéül —
inessive testében —
superessive testén —
adessive testénél —
illative testébe —
sublative testére —
allative testéhez —
elative testéből —
delative testéről —
ablative testétől —
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		testéé —
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		testééi —

Interlingua

Noun

teste (plural testes)

  1. witness

Italian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin testis, from earlier *terstis ← *tristis, from Proto-Indo-European *tristh₂s (“a third party standing, after the two parties to a contract or dispute”), from *tréyes (“three”) and *steh₂- (“to stand”).

Noun

teste m or f by sense (plural testi)

  1. (law) witness
    Synonym: testimone
Related terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English test.

Noun

teste m (plural testi)

  1. (rare) test
    Synonym: test

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

teste f pl

  1. plural of testa

Further reading

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

Anagrams

Latin

Noun

teste

  1. ablative singular of testis

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French teste.

Noun

teste f (plural testes)

  1. head
    • 1532, François Rabelais, Pantagruel:
      Comment Epistemon qui avoit la teste tranchée, fut guery habillement par Panurge.
      How Epistemon who had his head cut off was adroitly cured by Panurge

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

Related terms

References

Old French

Etymology

From Latin testa.

Noun

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

  1. head

Descendants

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pt

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: tes‧te

Etymology 1

From Latin testis (“witness”).

Noun

teste m (plural testes)

  1. (antiquated) witness
Related terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English test.

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
Related terms

Etymology 3

Verb

teste

  1. inflection of testar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:testar.

References

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دسته (deste, teste), from Persian دسته (dasta).

Pronunciation

Noun

tèste n (Cyrillic spelling тѐсте) (archaic)

  1. dozen, a bundle of twelve

Declension

Declension of teste
singular plural
nominative tèste testèta
genitive tèsteta testétā
dative tèstetu testètima
accusative tèste testèta
vocative tèste testèta
locative tèstetu testètima
instrumental tèstetom testètima

References

  • Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 614

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈteste/
  • Rhymes: -este
  • Syllabification: tes‧te

Etymology 1

From Latin testis.

Noun

teste m (plural testes)

  1. (anatomy) testicle
    Synonym: testículo

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

teste

  1. inflection of testar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

Tarantino

Noun

teste

  1. text

Turkish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tesˈte/
  • Hyphenation: tes‧te

Noun

teste

  1. dative singular of test
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