testum

Latin

From testa (“piece of burned clay”).

testum n (genitive testī); second declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: tsestu
- Romanian: țest
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: testo, teschio (< *testulum)
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: test
  - French: têt, test
  - → Middle English: test
    - English: test (see there for further descendants)
    - Scots: test
  - → Middle High German: test
    - German: Test
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: test
Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: tiestu
- Galician: testo
- Portuguese: testo
- Spanish: tiesto

“testum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
testum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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