teste

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛsti/, /ˈtɛsteɪ/

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• Homophone: testy

teste (plural testes)

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

• testes

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

• Sette, teest, teets

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

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

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.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛsdə/

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

• “teste” in Den Danske Ordbog

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teste f (plural testes)

1. obsolete spelling of tête

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

• tètes, tétés, têtes

From Latin testa.

teste f (plural testis)

1. (rare) head

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

teste

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛstə]

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teste

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

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

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

teste

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

teste (plural testes)

1. witness

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

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”).

teste m or f by sense (plural testi)

1. (law) witness

   Synonym: testimone

Borrowed from English test.

teste m (plural testi)

1. (rare) test

   Synonym: test

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

teste f pl

1. plural of testa

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

• Sette, sette

teste

1. ablative singular of testis

From Old French teste.

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

• French: tête

From English test.

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

1. to test (something)

• utestet

• test (noun)

• “teste” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin testa.

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

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

• Hyphenation: tes‧te

From Latin testis (“witness”).

teste m (plural testes)

1. (obsolete) witness

Borrowed from English test.

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.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

teste

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

• “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

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

• IPA^(key): /těste/

tèste n (Cyrillic spelling тѐсте) (archaic)

1. dozen, a bundle of twelve

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

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

From Latin testis.

teste m (plural testes)

1. (anatomy) testicle

   Synonym: testículo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

teste

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

• “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], 10 December 2024

teste

1. text

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

teste

1. dative singular of test