See also: test, TEST, tèst, těst, tęst, țest, and tesť

English

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Noun

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Test (plural Tests)

  1. (cricket) A Test match.

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Test

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

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German

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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Borrowed 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.

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

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

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

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Test m (strong, genitive Testes, plural Teste)

  1. (obsolete) melting pot
    Synonyms: Tiegel, Schmelztiegel
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Further reading

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  • Test” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • Test” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • Test” in Duden online

Plautdietsch

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Noun

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Test m (plural Tests)

  1. test