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)

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• 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

• testes

References

• “teste”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Sette, teest, teets

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 present tester testes past testede testedes infinitive teste testes imperative test — participle present testende past testet (auxiliary verb have) gerund testen

Derived terms

• aids-teste
• allergitestet
• gennemteste
• hiv-teste
• tester
• testning

Related terms

• aids-test
• graviditetstest
• hiv-test
• testcenter
• testresultat

References

• “teste” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

teste f (plural testes)

1. Obsolete spelling of tête.

Further reading

• “teste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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

Galician

Verb

teste

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

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛstə]

• Audio:

  (file)

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): /ˈtɛ.ste/
• 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

Related terms

• testimone
• testimonianza
• testimoniare
• testimonio

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

• Sette, sette

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

• utestet

Related terms

• test (noun)

References

• “teste” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin testa.

Noun

teste oblique singular, 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

• Champenois: téte
• Middle French: teste
  • French: tête
• Norman: tête, teet (Sark)
• Walloon: tiesse

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛs.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛs.t͡ʃi/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛʃ.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛs.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛʃ.tɨ/

• Hyphenation: tes‧te

Etymology 1

From Latin testis (“witness”).

Noun

teste m (plural testes)

1. (obsolete) witness

Related terms

• testar
• testemunho
• testificar

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

• testar
• teste de Cooper
• teste de gravidez
• teste de Rorschach
• teste do alce
• teste do pezinho
• teste do sofá
• teste psicotécnico

Related terms

• testado
• testador
• testante
• testável

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

• “teste”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “teste”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

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

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

• “teste”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Tarantino

Noun

teste

1. text

Turkish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

teste

1. dative singular of test