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Test

Pronunciation: /tɛst/

“Test” is a German word. Its 2 meanings in English:

noun

  1. test
  2. melting pot

Etymology

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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