testo

See also: testó, testò, těsto, and тесто

English

Etymology

Clipping of testosterone

Noun

testo (uncountable)

1. testosterone, especially pharmaceutical testosterone

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Galician

In Galicia, testos were used until recently as external waterproofing

Testos, Ribadavia

Etymology 1

Attested since the 13th century in Galician texts. From Old Galician / Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin testum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtesto̝/

Noun

testo m (plural testos)

1. (archaic) skull
   • 1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 137:

     dou lle hũ tal colpe [per] çima do elmo que a espada entrou ata o testo da cabeça

     He hit so hard over the helm that the sword entered till the pot [skull] of the head

2. lid
   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé (ed.), Rufus, Jordanus: Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 141:

     amasa todo en huun et cozeo en ola noua ben cuberta de huun testo, que non posa ende sayr bafo nen fumo

     knead everything together and cook it in a new pot, well covered by a lid, so that steam or smoke don't come out

   Synonyms: tampa, tello

3. flowerpot
4. lower valve of a shell

   Synonym: galés

Related terms

• testa

Etymology 2

Attested since the 15th century in Galician texts. From Old Galician / Old Galician-Portuguese (just marginally attested in Minhoto Portuguese), from Vulgar Latin *tensitus, from Latin tensus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛsto̝/

Adjective

1. (archaic) hard; stiff; tight
   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé (ed.), Rufus, Jordanus: Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 67:

     ual moito que o que cauallga o Cauallo a trote ou a gallope mandandoo duun lugar para outro, traga na maão a rredeẽa testa

     to this end it is very helpfull that the one riding the horse, either trotting or galloping from one place to another, to hold in his hand the rein tight

2. thick, dense
   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé (ed.), Rufus, Jordanus: Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 57:

     E se o Cauallo na sua Naçença, et adeante he avondado de leite et deruas suas carnes seram mais testas et mais fortes toda uya et seu corpo et seus nenbros mais grandes.

     And if the horse, when born and later, is supplied with plenty of milk and of grass, his meat will be even thicker and stronger, and his body and limbs larger

   Synonyms: denso, espeso, mesto

3. (informal, dated) good; great
   • 1807, anonymous, Primeiro diálogo dos esterqueiros, in Ramón Mariño Paz (ed.), Papés d'emprenta condenada. A escrita galega entre 1797 e 1846:

     ¡pro o viño eravos testo! tiñavos tan bo olido que resucitaba os mortos, e un sabor que gorentaba

     But the wine it was great, pals! It had such a scent that it raised the dead, and a taste that was more than delectable

   • 1813, anonymous, Conversación entre los compadres Bértolo y Mingote:

     Testos días meu compadre: ¿e vós tamén pola vila?

     Good day, crony: So? Are you also around town?

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “testo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “testo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “testo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “testo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “testo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.sto/
• Rhymes: -ɛsto
• Hyphenation: tè‧sto

Etymology 1

From Latin textus (“woven”), perfect passive participle of texō (“I weave”).

Alternative forms

• texto

Participle

testo (feminine testa, masculine plural testi, feminine plural teste)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of tessuto, past participle of tessere

References

• testo¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

From Latin testum (“earthenware pot, vessel”).

Noun

testo m (plural testi)

1. (uncommon) an earthenware lid
2. an earthenware baking tray

   Hypernym: teglia

3. (by extension) a metal baking tray

   Hypernym: teglia

4. an earthenware disk or dish
5. (archaic) earthenware

   Synonyms: coccio, terracotta

6. (archaic) an earthenware flowerpot

References

• testo² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 3

From Early New Latin textus (“text”), from Latin textus (“woven”), perfect passive participle of texō (“weave”).

Noun

testo m (plural testi)

1. text (writing)
2. wording
3. Extended meanings:
   1. (literature, linguistics) work

      Synonym: opera

   2. textbook

      Synonym: libro di testo

4. (computing) text (data which can be interpreted as human-readable text)
5. (music, literature) lyrics (the words of a song or poem)

   Synonyms: parole, lirica

6. (uncountable, printing, dated) a large size of type, standardized as 16 point

Derived terms

• testuale

References

• testo³ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 4

From English test.

Noun

testo m (plural testi)

1. Rare form of test.

References

• testo⁴ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 5

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

testo

1. first-person singular present indicative of testare

Anagrams

• setto, settò, toste

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) testō

1. dative/ablative singular of testum

References

• testo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• testo in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

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Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese testo, from Latin testum.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtes.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtes.tu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈteʃ.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtes.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈteʃ.tu/

• Hyphenation: tes‧to

Noun

testo m (plural testos)

1. a pot lid

Derived terms

• testar
• atestar

Related terms

• testa

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛs.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛs.tu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛʃ.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛs.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛʃ.tu/

• Hyphenation: tes‧to

Verb

testo

1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): tijȇsto

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *těsto.

Noun

tȇsto n (Cyrillic spelling те̑сто)

1. dough

Declension

Declension of testo

	singular	plural
nominative	testo	testa
genitive	testa	testa
dative	testu	testima
accusative	testo	testa
vocative	testo	testa
locative	testu	testima
instrumental	testom	testima

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *těsto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛstóː/

Noun

testọ̑ n

1. dough

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Neuter, hard
nominative	testo
genitive	testa
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	testo
genitive (rodȋlnik)	testa
dative (dajȃlnik)	testu
accusative (tožȋlnik)	testo
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	testu
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	testom

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Spanish

Verb

testo

1. first-person singular present indicative of testar