testare

Forms

testare f (plural testări)^[1]

Etymology

It is the long infinitive of testa “to test”, formed from Romanian testa + -re.^[2][3][4][1] The verb is from French tester (“to test”).^[2][5]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2's first record for this sense is DEX (1975): subjecting someone to a test.^[3]

Semantic evolution

Besides the psychological and medical test, the word came to mean any trial or experiment.^[3][2] An older testare, the long infinitive of testa “to bequeath”, meant “making a will, bequeathing”;^[3][6] Costinescu recorded it in 1870.^[3][6]

Timeline

• 1975 – testare “testing”, in DEX.^[3]

Meanings

Noun

1. testing: the act of testing and its result; subjecting someone or something to a test.^[2][3]
2. (by extension) experimenting, trying out.^[3]

Related words

• test

Usage notes

The homonymous testare “bequeathing, making a will”, from testa “to bequeath”, is dated.^[3][7]

References

1. ^ a b Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1122
3. ^ a b c d e f g h i Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 1210
4. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. testare
5. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. testa
6. ^ a b Costinescu, Ion (1870), Vocabularu romano-francesu, 2 vols., Bucuresci, p. 2, 613
7. ^ Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. testare