Test

See also: test, TEST, and țest

English

Noun

Test (plural Tests)

  1. (cricket) (sometimes test) a Test match

Proper noun

Test

  1. A river in Hampshire, England, which empties into the Solent near Southampton.

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German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɛst/, [tɛst]
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  • Rhymes: -ɛst

Etymology 1

From English test, from Old French test (“pot; melting pot, especially one in which metals were tried”), from Latin testum (“pot”). Compare etymology 2 below. The development from “melting pot” to “procedure of testing metals” also happened natively in earlier German, but the further generalisation is exclusively English.

Noun

Test m (genitive Tests or Testes, plural Tests or Teste, diminutive Testchen n)

  1. test
Usage notes
  • The commoner plural is Tests. The form Teste is chiefly colloquial.
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Etymology 2

From Middle High German test (“melting pot”), from Old French test, from Latin testum.

Noun

Test m (genitive Testes, plural Teste)

  1. (obsolete) melting pot
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Further reading

  • Test in Duden online
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