teste

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.[1]

See also

References

  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.

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

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛsdə/

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

Conjugation of teste
active passive
infinitive teste testes
present tester testes
past testede testedes
imperative test —
participle
present testende
past (have / havde) testet
gerund testen

Derived 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

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

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): [ˈtɛʃtɛ]
  • 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

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛs.te/
  • Rhymes: -ɛste
  • Hyphenation: tè‧ste

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

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 Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026
    • “teste2”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

    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

      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

        Pronunciation

         

        Etymology 1

          Derived from Latin testis (“witness”).

          Noun

          teste m (plural testes)

          1. (obsolete) witness

          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
              • 2007, Othon Cabo Winter, Antonio Fernando Bertachini de Almeida Prado, A Conquista do Espaço do Sputnik a Missão Centenário, Editora Livraria da Física, →ISBN, page 109:
                Em 22 de janeiro de 1968, ocorreu o vôo da Apollo 5. O objetivo da missão era realizar o teste do Módulo Lunar no espaço, em especial verificar o funcionamento de seus motores de alunissagem e ascensão, assim como avaliar o desempenho funcional da separação entre os módulos de alunissagem e ascensão e da estratégia de se abortar a alunissagem, situação onde o foguete de ascensão era acionado e a separação entre os módulos ocorreria, enquanto o módulo se encontrava em processo de descida.
                On January 22, 1968, Apollo 5 flew. The aim of the mission was to test the Lunar Module in space, in particular to check the operation of its landing and ascent engines, as well as to evaluate the functional performance of the separation between the landing and ascent modules and the strategy of aborting the landing, a situation in which the ascent rocket was activated and the separation between the modules took place while the module was in the process of descending.
            Derived terms

            Etymology 3

              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

              References

              Further reading

              Serbo-Croatian

              Etymology

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

              Pronunciation

              • IPA(key): /těste/

              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/ [ˈt̪es.t̪e]
              • Rhymes: -este
              • Syllabification: tes‧te

              Etymology 1

                Derived 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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