examen

See also: Examen

English

Etymology

From Latin exāmen (“the tongue of a balance, examination”), for exagmen, from exigere (“to weigh accurately, to treat”): compare French examen. See exact.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzeɪ.mən/

Noun

examen (plural examens)

1. (obsolete) examination; inquiry
   • William Cowper

     For this reason I decline answering the question with which you concluded your last, and cannot persuade myself to enter into a critical examen of the two pieces upon Lord Mansfield's loss […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “examen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• axemen

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exāmen. Compare the inherited eixam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əɡˈza.mən]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [eɡˈza.men]

Noun

examen m (plural exàmens)

1. exam, test

Synonyms

• examinació

Derived terms

• examinar

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• (before 1996) eksamen

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exāmen.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

examen n (plural examens or examina, diminutive examentje n)

1. examination

Synonyms

• tentamen

Derived terms

• examineren
• toelatingsexamen

Descendants

• → Indonesian: eksamen

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exāmen. Doublet of essaim.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛɡ.za.mɛ̃/, /eɡ.za.mɛ̃/

• Audio (France)

  (file)

• Homophone: examens

Noun

examen m (plural examens)

1. exam, test

Derived terms

• mettre en examen

Further reading

• “examen”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Etymology

From ex- (“out”) +‎ agō (“I drive”) +‎ -men (instrumental suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ekˈsaː.men/, [ɛkˈs̠äːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ekˈsa.men/, [eɡˈzäːmen]

Noun

exāmen n (genitive exāminis); third declension

1. swarm of bees; crowd
2. tongue of a balance
3. a consideration, an examining

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	exāmen	exāmina
Genitive	exāminis	exāminum
Dative	exāminī	exāminibus
Accusative	exāmen	exāmina
Ablative	exāmine	exāminibus
Vocative	exāmen	exāmina

Related terms

• exāminō

Descendants

• Albanian: shemë
• Catalan: examen (borrowing), eixam
• Dutch: examen (borrowing)
• Franco-Provençal: èssem
• French: examen (borrowing), essaim
• Friulian: esam (borrowing), scuam
• Galician: enxame
• Ido: examenar, esamo
• Italian: esame (borrowing), sciame
• Occitan: eissam

• Old Galician-Portuguese: eixame
• Portuguese: exame (borrowing), enxame
• Romanian: examen (borrowing)
• Romansch: examen (borrowing)
• Russian: экзамен (ekzamen) (borrowing)
• Sicilian: assamu, sciamu
• Spanish: examen (borrowing), enjambre
• Swedish: examen (borrowing)
• Venetian: exame (borrowing), same, samo

References

• “examen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “examen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• examen 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)
• examen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “examen”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “examen”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin, French exāmen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [eɡˈza.men]

Noun

examen n (plural examene)

1. exam, examination, test

Declension

Declension of examen

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) examen	examenul	(niște) examene	examenele
genitive/dative	(unui) examen	examenului	(unor) examene	examenelor
vocative	examenule		examenelor

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Romansch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exāmen.

Noun

examen m (plural examens)

1. exam

Derived terms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) examen final, (Puter) examen finel (“final exam”)
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) examen da qualificaziun, (Sutsilvan) examen da qualificaziùn (“aptitude test, test of ability, occupational test”)

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exāmen. Compare the inherited doublet enjambre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eɡˈsamen/ [eɣ̞ˈsa.mẽn]

Noun

examen m (plural exámenes)

1. exam, examination

Related terms

• examinar

Further reading

• Template:R:DRAE 2001

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exāmen.

Pronunciation

• audio

  (file)

Noun

examen c

1. exam
2. graduation
3. degree

   Den sökande bör ha en examen i ekonomi

   The applicant should have a degree in economics.

Declension

Declension of examen
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	examen	examen	examina	examina
Genitive	examens	examens	examinas	examinas

Synonyms

• (exam): examination

See also

• studenten
• tentamen