test – English noun declension

English noun forms of test

Noun: test
Singulartest
Pluraltests

Sample Sentences

  • 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. [2012 March-April, Colin Allen, “Do I See What You See?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2012, page 168:]
  • It's Christmas at ground zero / The button has been pressed / The radio / Just let us know / That this is not a test [1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party!:]
  • aptitude test
  • Test Theory
  • Who would excel, when few can make a test / Betwixt indifferent writing and the best? [1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, (please specify the page number):]

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 his gold, a teacher may put to the test her students' knowledge.
2. Displaced Old English afandung. See: Middle English Nouns 'test', Latin Nouns 'testum'.

Verbs referencing "test"

Danish Nouns test, Dutch Nouns test, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns test, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns test, Polish Nouns test, Swedish Nouns test, German Nouns Test, Finnish Nouns testi, Hungarian Nouns teszt, Russian Nouns тест, Ukrainian Nouns тест.