testo

See also: testó, testò, těsto, and тесто

Galician

In Galicia, testos were used untill 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

• Template:R:DDGM
• “testo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• “testo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛsto

Noun

testo m (plural testi)

1. text
2. (literature) work
3. textbook
4. wording
5. (music) lyrics (the words of a song)

   Synonym: parole

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

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 singular of testum
2. 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

From Old Galician-Portuguese testo, from Latin testum.

Noun

testo m (plural testos)

1. a pot lid (ê)

Derived terms

• testar
• atestar

Related terms

• testa

Verb

testo

1. first-person singular present indicative of testar (é)

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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 (yo) present indicative form of testar.