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5-letter words (2 found)

TESTE,TETES,

4-letter words (6 found)

SETT,STET,TEES,TEST,TETE,TETS,

3-letter words (6 found)

EST,SEE,SET,TEE,TES,TET,

2-letter words (5 found)

EE,ES,ET,ST,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

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Definitions and meaning of teste

teste

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/
  • 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

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

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

References

  • “teste” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Pronunciation

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]

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

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

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

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

Descendants

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: tes‧te

Etymology 1

From Latin testis (“witness”).

Noun

teste m (plural testes)

  1. (obsolete) witness
Related terms

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
Derived terms
Related 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

  • “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

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

Source: wiktionary.org