tentamen

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tentāmen (“attempt”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

tentamen n (plural tentamens, diminutive tentamentje n)

1. an examination (especially in higher education)

Synonyms

• examen

Derived terms

• tentamineren

Descendants

• → Indonesian: tentamen

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch tentamen (“examination”), from Latin tentāmen (“attempt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tɛnˈtamɛn]
• Hyphenation: tèn‧ta‧mèn

Noun

tèntamèn (first-person possessive tentamenku, second-person possessive tentamenmu, third-person possessive tentamennya)

1. (education) examination (higher education).

   Synonym: ujian

Further reading

• “tentamen” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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Latin

Etymology

From tentō (“I try”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tenˈtaː.men/, [t̪ɛn̪ˈt̪äːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tenˈta.men/, [t̪en̪ˈt̪äːmen]

Noun

tentāmen n (genitive tentāminis); third declension

1. an attempt
2. (New Latin) a literary attempt: an essay
   • 1719, Johann Jakob Brucker:

     Tentamen Introductionis in Historiam Doctrinae Logicae de Ideis

     An Essay Introducing the History of the Logical Doctrine of Ideas

Declension

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

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tentāmen	tentāmina
Genitive	tentāminis	tentāminum
Dative	tentāminī	tentāminibus
Accusative	tentāmen	tentāmina
Ablative	tentāmine	tentāminibus
Vocative	tentāmen	tentāmina

Descendants

• → Dutch: tentamen
• → Swedish: tentamen, tenta

References

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

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Swedish

Etymology

From Latin tentāmen (“an attempt”)

Noun

tentamen c

1. an examination

Declension

Declension of tentamen
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	tentamen	tentamen	tentamina	tentamina
Genitive	tentamens	tentamens	tentaminas	tentaminas

Derived terms

• (contraction): tenta

Related terms

•  tentera