# test
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /tɛst/, [tʰɛst]
* Audio (Received Pronunciation); “a test”:(file)
* Audio (General American):(file)
* (New Zealand, General South African) IPA: [tʰest]
* Rhymes: -ɛst

### Etymology 1

From Middle English test, teste, from Old French test, teste (“an earthen vessel, especially a pot in which metals were tried”), from Latin testum (“the lid of an earthen vessel, an earthen vessel, an earthen pot”), from *terstus, past participle of the root *tersa (“dry land”). See terra, thirst. The examination sense came via metaphor of the metallurgical sense - the way a metallurgist puts to the test their gold, a teacher may put to the test their students' knowledge.

#### Noun

test (plural tests)
* A challenge, trial.
** 2012 March-April, Colin Allen, “Do I See What You See?”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 26 April 2012, page 168:Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.
* A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
* (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
* A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
** 1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party!‎:It's Christmas at ground zero / The button has been pressed / The radio / Just let us know / That this is not a test
* (cricket, normally "Test") A Test match.
* (marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.Two sea urchin tests
* (botany) Testa; seed coat.
* (obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
** 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, (please specify the page number):Who would excel, when few can make a test / Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?

##### Synonyms

* (challenge, trial): See Thesaurus:test
* (academics: examination): examination, quiz

##### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “academics: examination”): recess

##### Hyponyms

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* acid test
* Ames test
* Anderson-Darling test
* babysitter test
* Benedict's test
* blood test
* Charpy test
* cock's comb test
* duck test
* elephant test
* field test
* fine-tooth comb test
* flame test
* fragility test
* giggle test
* inkblot test
* laugh test
* level test
* litmus test
* Martindale rub test
* Martindale test
* Miller-Rabin test
* multiple-choice test
* nose test
* Rabin-Miller test
* Rorschach test
* single-choice test
* smell test
* smoke test
* sniff test
* soap test
* software test
* spin prime test
* static test
* stress test

##### Derived terms

* A/B test
* Abel test
* acceptance test
* air puff test
* alpha test
* alternating series test
* Becchi's test
* Bechdel test
* beep test
* Beilstein test
* bench test
* beta test
* bleeding time test
* bleep test
* blind test
* Blockburger test
* blot test
* borax bead test
* Bourne test
* brake test
* breath test
* brown bag test
* brown paper bag test
* central location test
* Charpy impact test
* chi-square test
* comb test
* Coombs test
* Cooper test
* copy test
* crash test
* crash test dummy
* day-after recall test
* device under test
* Dick test
* diehard test
* dielectric withstand test
* Dix-Hallpike test
* DNA test
* double-blind test
* Draize test
* driving test
* drug test
* DUT
* elk test
* emissions test
* eye test
* field sobriety test
* field-test
* final test
* flash test
* flood test
* fluorine test
* foretest
* Friedman test
* fuzz test
* Griess test
* Grubbs' test
* Guthrie test
* hall test
* Heaf test
* high-test
* high-test peroxide
* hit test
* hole-board test
* hot iron test
* Howey test
* ignition tube test
* Ishihara test
* Izod test
* Kesternich test
* Knoop test
* KPSS test
* Kwiatkowski-Phillips-Schmidt-Shin test
* Lachman test
* lateral flow test
* Lemon test
* limit comparison test
* liver function test
* Lüscher test
* Mako Mori test
* Mann-Whitney U test
* Mantoux test
* Marechal-Rosin test
* Marechal's test
* maternity test
* means-test
* means test
* Miller test
* mirror test
* Molisch's test
* mom test
* Montenegro test
* Mooney face test
* moose test
* Mullen test
* Mull of Kintyre test
* Murphy's test
* nerdity test
* nonstress test
* nuclear test
* nucleic acid test
* oil test
* open-field test
* oral test
* oscillating wave test system
* Palko test
* Papanicolaou test
* paper bag test
* pap test
* Pap test
* paraffin test
* patch test
* paternity test
* pencil test
* penetration test
* pen test
* perfect gold standard test
* placement test
* platelet function test
* poppy seed test
* postcoital test
* Potter Stewart test
* precipitin test
* pregnancy test
* pre-test
* prick test
* pub test
* pulmonary function test
* purity test
* put to the test
* rabbit test
* rape test kit
* rapid antigen test
* RAT test
* red face test
* reverse Turing test
* Rinne test
* road-test
* road test
* Rogers test
* Rorschach inkblot test
* saliva test
* Sally-Anne test
* salt spray test
* sanity test
* Schamroth's test
* Schick test
* Schwabach test
* screen test
* self-test
* sequential probability ratio test
* shit test
* shovel test
* Sims test
* sitting-rising test
* smear test
* Snellen test
* soak test
* Sobel test
* spark test
* speaking test
* split test
* spot test
* stand the test of time
* straight-face test
* straight face test
* Stroop test
* Student's t test
* Student's t-test
* sub-test
* surprise test paradox
* Szondi test
* Tan Delta test
* taste-test
* teach to the test
* Tecumseh step test
* test and trace
* test bed
* test bench
* test card
* test case
* test cross
* test data
* test depth
* test double
* test drive
* test-drive
* test-driven development
* tester
* test-fire
* test firing
* test flight
* test-fly
* test harness
* test match
* test mule
* test of time
* test-paper
* test paper
* test pattern
* test pilot
* test pit
* test portion
* test pressing
* test-retest method
* test run
* test site
* test someone's patience
* test subject
* test suite
* test-taker
* test track
* test tube
* test-tube baby
* test tube baby
* Thomas test
* tilt table test
* time test
* tine test
* torture-test
* Tower of London test
* trade test
* transfer test
* triangle test
* triple test
* t test
* t-test
* Tukey's honest significance test
* Tukey's range test
* Tukey's test
* Turing test
* unit test
* Wada test
* Wald test
* Wassermann test
* Weber test
* white glove test
* white-glove test
* Widal test
* Winkler test
* Winogradsky test
* z-test

##### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: test
* → Catalan: test
* → Czech: test
* → Danish: test
* → Dutch: test
* → Finnish: testi
* → French: test
* → German: Test
* → Hungarian: teszt
* → Italian: test
* → Japanese: テスト (tesuto)
* → Korean: 테스트 (teseuteu)
* → Macedonian: тест (test)
* → Norwegian: test
* → Persian: تست (test)
* → Polish: test
* → Portuguese: teste
* → Romanian: test
* → Russian: тест (test)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: тест
    Latin script: test
* → Slovene: test
* → Spanish: test
* → Swedish: test
* → Turkish: test
* → Ukrainian: тест (test)

##### Translations
#### Verb

test (third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)
* To challenge, to put a strain on (something).
    Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.
* To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
* To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.
    to test the soundness of a principle
    to test the validity of an argument
** September 17, 1796, George Washington, Farewell Address
    Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution.
* (academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
* To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
** 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 3, archived from the original on 24 April 2013, page 200:Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems– […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.
* (copulative) To be shown to be by test.
    He tested positive for cancer.
** 2015, Leta Stetter Hollingworth, Harry Levi Hollingworth, Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development:It is probable that children who test above 180 IQ are actually present in our juvenile population in greater frequency than at the rate of one in a million.
* (chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
    to test a solution by litmus paper
* (intransitive, transitive, slang) To challenge (someone) to a fight.
** 2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, page 31:Back then, you couldn't rock any type of jewelry just like that, because someone was going to test you or rob you. If you were wearing a chain, you had to be someone who was known for shooting or cutting or knocking dudes the fuck out. And someone who didn’t know you may still try and test, so you couldn't really rely on your rep to save you every time.
** 2023 November 6, “Guapi” (1:44 from the start)‎performed by YoungBoy Never Broke Again:I'm feelin' special, I might fly her out to LA, yeah / I got my weapon, it turn violent if you test me, yeah

##### Conjugation

$^†$ Archaic or obsolete.

##### Derived terms

* field-test
* test out
* test the water
* test the waters
* tried and tested
* undertest

##### Descendants

* German: testen

##### Translations

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### Etymology 2

From Middle English teste, from Old French teste, test and Latin testis (“one who attests, a witness”).

#### Noun

test (plural tests)
* (obsolete) A witness.
** 1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles
    Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety tests of that deed.

#### Verb

test (third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)
* (obsolete, transitive) To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
* (obsolete, intransitive) To make a testament, or will.

##### Related terms

* attest
* contest
* detest
* protest

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

test (uncountable)
* (informal, slang, bodybuilding) Clipping of testosterone.

### Further reading

* “test”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “test”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* ETTs, Etts, TETS, TETs, Tets, sett, stet, tets

## Breton
### Noun

test
* witness

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtest]

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin testum (“earthenware pot”), from testa (“piece of burnt clay”). Cognate with Spanish tiesto.

#### Noun

test m (plural testos)
* flowerpot
* potsherd

##### Derived terms

* pixar fora de test

##### Related terms

* testa

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English test.

#### Noun

test m (plural tests)
* test (exam or challenge)

##### Derived terms

* testar
* testejar

##### Related terms

* tèster

### Further reading

* “test” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “test”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

## Czech
### Etymology

Borrowed from English test.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtɛst]
* Hyphenation: test

### Noun

test m inan
* test
    provést test ― to perform a test

#### Derived terms

* testovací
* testovat
* testový

### Further reading

* “test”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “test”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “test”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English test.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɛsd/

### Noun

test c (singular definite testen, plural indefinite tests)
* A test, assessment or examination.

#### Synonyms

* prøve
* afprøvning

#### Derived terms

* teste
* personlighedstest
* testresultat
* testbil

### References

* “test” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɛst/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: test
* Rhymes: -ɛst

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English test.

#### Noun

test m (plural testen or tests, diminutive testje n)
* test

##### Synonyms

* experiment
* proef

##### Derived terms

* geluidstest
* piepjestest
* praktijktest
* shuttleruntest
* sneltest
* testen

##### Descendants

* → Indonesian: tes

#### Verb

test
* inflection of testen:
** first/second/third-person singular present indicative
** imperative

### Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch test, from Old French test, from Latin testum, from testa.

#### Noun

test m (plural testen or tests, diminutive testje n)
* a test, an earthen bowl or pot
* a test, a cupel (used in smelting)

##### Derived terms

* vergiettest
* vuurtest

##### Descendants

* Afrikaans: tessie

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɛst/

### Etymology 1

From Old French test, from Latin testum. The orthography of this form reflects semi-learned influence; compare the doublet têt.

#### Noun

test m (plural tests)
* test, a cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement
* (marine biology) test, the external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English test, itself from the same Old French test as above.

#### Noun

test m (plural tests)
* a test, a tryout, a review

##### Derived terms

* tester

### Further reading

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

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Of unknown origin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtɛʃt]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: test
* Rhymes: -ɛʃt

### Noun

test (plural testek)
* (anatomy) body
* (geometry) solid (three-dimensional figure)
* (algebra) field (commutative ring)

#### Derived terms

* testecs
* testecske
* testes
* testetlen
* testi
* testiség
* testű
* altest
* égitest
* felsőtest
* forgástest
* fűtőtest
* hajótest
* holttest
* testalkat
* testápolás
* testépítés
* testnevelés
* testnyelv
* testőr
* testrész
* testtartás
* testvér
* úttest
* vértest
* a lélek kész, de a test erőtlen
* arkhimédészi test
* csak a testemen keresztül
* platóni test
* testre szab

### References

* ↑ test in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

### Further reading

* test in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English test.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɛst/
* Rhymes: -ɛst
* Hyphenation: tèst

### Noun

test m (invariable)
* test

## Ladin
### Noun

test m (plural [please provide])
* text

## Latvian
### Verb

test (?? missing information, ?? conjugation, present ??, past ??)
* to beat
* to knock about
* to flog

## Maltese
### Etymology

Borrowed from English test, ultimately from Latin testum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɛst/

### Noun

test m (plural testijiet)
* test (examination)
    Għamluli test tad-droga. ― They did a drug test on me.

#### Related terms

* ttesta

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1

From English test.

#### Noun

test m (definite singular testen, indefinite plural tester, definite plural testene)
* a test

##### Derived terms

* synstest

##### Related terms

* teste

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

test
* imperative of teste

### References

* “test” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From English test.

### Noun

test m (definite singular testen, indefinite plural testar, definite plural testane)
* a test

#### Derived terms

* synstest

### References

* “test” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old French
### Etymology

From Latin testum.

### Noun

test oblique singular, m (oblique plural tez or tetz, nominative singular tez or tetz, nominative plural test)
* (uncountable) clay
* (countable) a pot, usually made out of clay

#### Descendants

* French: têt, test
* → Middle English: test
** English: test (see there for further descendants)
** Scots: test
* → Middle High German: test
** German: Test

### References

* Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX$^e$ au XV$^e$ siècle (1881) (test)

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English test, from Middle English test, teste, from Old French test, teste, from Latin testum, from *terstus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɛst/
* Audio 1:(file)
* Audio 2:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛst
* Syllabification: test

### Noun

test m inan
* (education) examination, exam, test (formal test)
    Synonyms: egzamin, sprawdzian

#### Declension
### Further reading

* test in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* test in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French test.

### Noun

test n (plural teste)
* test

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /têst/

### Noun

tȅst m (Cyrillic spelling те̏ст)
* test (challenge, trial)
* test (academics)
* test (product examination)

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English test.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtest/ [ˈt̪est̪]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -est
* Syllabification: test

### Noun

test m (plural tests)
* test
    Synonym: prueba
* multiple-choice test, multiple-choice question
    Synonyms: (Spain) examen tipo test, examen de opción múltiple

#### Usage notes

* The plural form can also be tests.

#### Derived terms

* examen tipo test
* test de nivel

### Further reading

* “test”, 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
* “tests”, 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
* “test”, in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas [Panhispanic Dictionary of Doubts] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Royal Spanish Academy; Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, 2023, →ISBN
* Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés, Gabino Ramos (2023 August 3) “test”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]

## Swedish
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English test.

#### Noun

test c or n
* a test, an examination, a trial
* a test, an attempt, an experiment

##### Synonyms

* examen
* försök
* experiment
* prov
* skrivning

##### Derived terms

* alkotest
* anlagstest
* betatest
* blindtest
* blodtest
* bläckplumpstest
* chitvåtest
* drogtest
* flervalstest
* graviditetstest
* hivtest
* intelligenstest
* konditionstest
* lackmustest
* lucktest
* personlighetstest
* rorschachtest
* språktest
* älgtest

##### Related terms

* testa

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

test c
* a tuft or lock of hair

##### Synonyms

* tofs
* tuss

##### Derived terms

* hårtest

### Further reading

* test in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
* test in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

### Anagrams

* sett

## Turkish
### Etymology

From English test.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtest/
* Hyphenation: test

### Noun

test (definite accusative testi, plural testler)
* test
* An exam consisting of multiple-choice questions with 3, 4 or 5 choices, labeled a through e.

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
test
testler
definite accusative
testi
testleri
dative
teste
testlere
locative
testte
testlerde
ablative
testten
testlerden
genitive
testin
testlerin
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
testim
testlerim
2nd singular
testin
testlerin
3rd singular
testi
testleri
1st plural
testimiz
testlerimiz
2nd plural
testiniz
testleriniz
3rd plural
testleri
testleri
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
testimi
testlerimi
2nd singular
testini
testlerini
3rd singular
testini
testlerini
1st plural
testimizi
testlerimizi
2nd plural
testinizi
testlerinizi
3rd plural
testlerini
testlerini
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
testime
testlerime
2nd singular
testine
testlerine
3rd singular
testine
testlerine
1st plural
testimize
testlerimize
2nd plural
testinize
testlerinize
3rd plural
testlerine
testlerine
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
testimde
testlerimde
2nd singular
testinde
testlerinde
3rd singular
testinde
testlerinde
1st plural
testimizde
testlerimizde
2nd plural
testinizde
testlerinizde
3rd plural
testlerinde
testlerinde
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
testimden
testlerimden
2nd singular
testinden
testlerinden
3rd singular
testinden
testlerinden
1st plural
testimizden
testlerimizden
2nd plural
testinizden
testlerinizden
3rd plural
testlerinden
testlerinden
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
testimin
testlerimin
2nd singular
testinin
testlerinin
3rd singular
testinin
testlerinin
1st plural
testimizin
testlerimizin
2nd plural
testinizin
testlerinizin
3rd plural
testlerinin
testlerinin :

#### Derived terms

* testçi
* testçik
* testçilik
* testli
* testsiz

## Vietnamese
### Etymology

From English test.

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [tɛt̚˧˦]
* (Huế) IPA: [tɛt̚˦˧˥]
* (Saigon) IPA: [tɛk̚˦˥]
* Phonetic spelling: tét

### Noun

(classifier bài) test
* a test (examination)
    Synonym: kiểm tra

### Verb

test
* to test (examine)
    Synonym: kiểm tra