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Definitions and meaning of testa

testa

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin testa.

Noun

testa (plural testas or testae or testæ)

1. (botany) A seed coat.

   The testa develops from the tissue, the integument, originally surrounding the ovule.

   • 1969, C. W. Bennett, Seed Transmission of Plant Viruses, Alison Smith, Advances in Virus Research, Volume 14, page 224,

     In tests with the Lincoln and Virginia varieties of cowpea, Crowley (1959) found that, in plants infected with bean southern mosaic virus before blossoming, the virus was present in nearly 100% of the testae and endosperms of seeds of both varieties, but could not be detected in the embryos.

   • 2005, D. W. Dickson, D. De Waele, Nematode Parasites of Peanut, Michel Luc, Richard A. Sikora, John Bridge, Plant Parasitic Nematodes in Subtropical and Tropical Agriculture, page 419,

     A.^{[Aphelenchoides]} arachidis is a parasite of pods, testae, roots and hypocotyls, but not the cotyledons, embryos or other parts of the plant (Bos, 1977a; Bridge et al., 1977).
2. (marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm; the test.

Anagrams

• Satet, State, Teats, Tetas, aetts, atest, state, taste, teats

Catalan

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin testa (“burned clay; baked earthenware”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtes.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈtes.ta]

Noun

testa f (plural testes)

1. (Empordanese) head

   Synonym: cap

2. end (of a post, plank, barrel, etc.)
3. (botany) testa (the outer layer of a seed coat)

Derived terms

• testarrada
• testarral
• testarrut
• testavirar
• testera
• testó

Related terms

• test

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtes.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈtes.ta]

Adjective

testa

1. feminine singular of test (“tense”)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɛs.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈtes.ta]

Verb

testa

1. inflection of testar (“to test”):
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtes.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈtes.ta]

Verb

testa

1. inflection of testar (“to witness”):
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “testa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛs.ta/

Verb

testa

1. third-person singular past historic of tester

Anagrams

• états, tâtes, tétas

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese testa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin testa (“earthen pot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛsta̝/

Noun

testa f (plural testas)

1. forehead
   • 1390, José Luís Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 133:

   • 1434, A. López Carreira (ed.), Libro de Notas de Álvaro Afonso, doc. 90:

   Synonym: fronte

2. (figurative) the whole head of a person

   Synonyms: cabeza, cachola, croca

3. limit of a property

   Synonyms: derrego, estremeiro, límite, lindeiro

4. fore

   Synonym: fronte

5. lid

   Synonym: tello

Derived terms

• entestar
• testalán
• testán
• testar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtesta̝/

Adjective

testa f sg

1. feminine singular of testo

Etymology 3

Verb

testa

1. inflection of testar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

References

• “testa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “testa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “testa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “testa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “testa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.sta/
• Rhymes: -ɛsta
• Hyphenation: tè‧sta

Etymology 1

From Latin testa. The semantic development is earthen pot → skull → head.

Noun

testa f (plural teste, diminutive testìna or testolìna or (uncommon, usually of butchered animals) testicciòla or (literary, uncommon, usually of butchered animals) testicciuòla, augmentative testóna or (with specialized meanings) testóne m, pejorative testàccia, derogatory testùccia)

1. (anatomy) head
2. (numismatics) obverse (of a coin)
3. (anatomy) head (of a bone)
4. (rail transport, singular only, uncountable) head (of a train), the first car(s)

   Antonym: coda

   La prima classe è in testa al treno ― The first class is at the head of the train

Synonyms

• (part of the body): capo

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Alemannic German: Teste
• → Spanish: testa

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

testa

1. inflection of testare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• Setta, setta, state

Latin

Etymology

Unknown:

• Perhaps as if tosta, from torreō (“to burn, parch”).
• Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *tₔtḱ-t-, from *tetḱ- (“to create, produce”) (whence Latin texō (“to weave”)). Thus cognate with Middle Persian tšt' (tašt).
• Borrowed from a substrate language, as words for vessels often are.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtes.ta/, [ˈt̪ɛs̠t̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtes.ta/, [ˈt̪ɛst̪ä]

Noun

testa f (genitive testae); first declension

1. a piece of burned clay, brick, tile
2. (transferred sense) a piece of baked earthenware
   1. an earthen pot, pitcher, jug, urn
   2. a sherd, potsherd
   3. a piece of bone
   4. ostracon (= ὄστρακον (óstrakon))
   5. the shell of shellfish or of testaceous animals, shellfish
   6. (Late Latin) skull

      Synonyms: calva, calvāria, crānium

3. a sort of clapping with the flat of the hands (as if with two tiles), in token of applause, invented by Nero

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• testū/ testum
• testūdō
• testula

Related terms

• testuātium
• testūdineātus
• testūdineus

Descendants

References

• “testa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “testa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• testa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• testa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “testa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• testa in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “testa”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Cravens, Thomas D. Cross-language evidence in etymology: The origin of 'testa' as 'head' in Romance. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen. 83: 53–60.

Latvian

Noun

testa m

1. genitive singular of tests

Lombard

Alternative forms

• tèsta (Classical Milanese Orthography)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛsta/ (Milanese)

Noun

testa f

1. head

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• testet

Verb

testa

1. inflection of teste:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

Occitan

Noun

testa f (plural testas)

1. Alternative form of tèsta

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin testa.

Noun

testa f (oblique plural testas, nominative singular testa, nominative plural testas)

1. head

Descendants

• Occitan: tèsta, testa (Limousin)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛstɐ, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -ɛʃtɐ
• Hyphenation: tes‧ta

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese testa, from Latin testa.

Noun

testa f (plural testas)

1. forehead (part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline)

Derived terms

• testinha
• testudo

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

testa

1. inflection of testar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tester.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teˈsta/

Verb

a testa (third-person singular present testează, past participle testat) 1st conj.

1. (transitive) to test; to try

   Synonym: încerca

Conjugation

References

• testa in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin testa (“pot”).

Noun

testa f (plural testas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) head

Usage notes

In Rumantsch Grischun, the literary standard language, testa is used in the figurative sense, and chau in the anatomical sense. Usage differs somewhat, however, between dialects.

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun) chau
• (Sursilvan) tgau
• (Sutsilvan) tgieu
• (Surmiran) tgea
• (Puter) cho
• (Vallader) cheu

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin testa (“earthen pot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪ʲɛs(ʃ)ta/
• Hyphenation: te‧sta

Noun

testa f (plural testi)

1. (anatomy) head
2. intelligent person
3. intelligence

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtesta/ [ˈt̪es.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -esta
• Syllabification: tes‧ta

Etymology 1

From Latin testa. Compare the inherited Old Spanish tiesta.

Noun

testa f (plural testas)

1. head
2. test (shell or endoskeleton of an echinoderm or certain plankton)

Derived terms

• testa coronada
• testa de ferro, testaferro

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

testa

1. inflection of testar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “testa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Pronunciation

Verb

testa (present testar, preterite testade, supine testat, imperative testa)

1. to try, to attempt; (to see if a specific action is possible; also to see if a device works properly)

Conjugation

Further reading

• testa in Svensk ordbok.

Anagrams

• etsat, ettas, satte, setat

Source: wiktionary.org