See also: Teste, testé, and tešte

English

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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teste (plural testes)

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

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

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Corsican

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Etymology

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

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

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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

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Etymology

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

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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

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French

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teste f (plural testes)

  1. Obsolete spelling of tête.

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Friulian

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Etymology

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From Latin testa.

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teste f (plural testis)

  1. (rare) head

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Galician

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teste

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

German

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teste

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

Hungarian

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Etymology

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test (body) +‎ -e (possessive suffix)

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  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛʃtɛ]
  • Hyphenation: tes‧te

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teste

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

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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

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Noun

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teste (plural testes)

  1. witness

Italian

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Etymology 1

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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).

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teste m or f by sense (plural testi)

  1. (law) witness
    Synonym: testimone
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English test.

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teste m (plural testi)

  1. (rare) test
    Synonym: test

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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teste f pl

  1. plural of testa

Further reading

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

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Latin

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Noun

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teste

  1. ablative singular of testis

Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French teste.

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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

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  • French: tête

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From English test.

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

  1. to test (something)

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Old French

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Etymology

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From Latin testa.

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

  1. head

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Portuguese

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Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pt

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  • Hyphenation: tes‧te

Etymology 1

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From Latin testis (witness).

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teste m (plural testes)

  1. (obsolete) witness
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English test.

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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
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Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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teste

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

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

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tèste n (Cyrillic spelling тѐсте) (archaic)

  1. dozen, a bundle of twelve

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

Spanish

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  • IPA(key): /ˈteste/ [ˈt̪es.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -este
  • Syllabification: tes‧te

Etymology 1

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From Latin testis.

Noun

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teste m (plural testes)

  1. (anatomy) testicle
    Synonym: testículo

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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teste

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

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Tarantino

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teste

  1. text

Turkish

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Pronunciation

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

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teste

  1. dative singular of test
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