test

• n. 実験; テスト
• vt.
• vi. 実験；試験
• n. （テスト）人名；（英）テスター

古フランス語のtester「証言する、確認する」から、ラテン語のtestari「証言する、確認する」から、PIE*tri-st「三人称」から、語源的にはthreeと同じ、*st「立つ」から、語源的にはstandと同じ。

古フランス語のtest, earthenwareから、特に古代に金属元素の測定や試験に使われた土製の容器を指し、ラテン語のtestum, earthenware, potから、terra, earth, -st, 過去分詞格、語源はterrine, terrainと同じ。

test

test: [14] Latin testum denoted an ‘earthenware pot’. English acquired it via Old French test, and used it originally for a ‘pot in which metals are subjected to heat’. Among the purposes these tests were put to was assaying, to ascertain the quality of metal, and by the 16th century the word was being used metaphorically for an ‘examination of properties or qualities’. English testy and French tête ‘head’ are close relatives.
=> testy

test (n.)

late 14c., "small vessel used in assaying precious metals," from Old French test, from Latin testum "earthen pot," related to testa "piece of burned clay, earthen pot, shell" (see tete).

Sense of "trial or examination to determine the correctness of something" is recorded from 1590s. The connecting notion is "ascertaining the quality of a metal by melting it in a pot." Test Act was the name given to various laws in English history meant to exclude Catholics and Nonconformists from office, especially that of 1673, repealed 1828. Test drive (v.) is first recorded 1954.

test (v.)

1748, "to examine the correctness of," from test (n.), on the notion of "put to the proof." Earlier "assay gold or silver" in a test (c. 1600). Meaning "to administer a test" is from 1939; sense of "undergo a test" is from 1934. Related: Tested; testing.

1. So far 57 have taken the test and all have been negative.

これまでに57人が参加し、いずれも陰性だった。

2.He tried to bluff his way through another test and failed it.

彼は再び試験でごまかそうとしたが、ばれてしまった。

3.The scientists have already experimented at each other 's test sites.

科学者はすでにお互いの実験場所で実験を行っている。

4.The test can accurately predict what a bigger explosion would do.

この試験は、より大きな爆発の威力を正確に予測することができる。

5.He suggested a link between class size and test results of seven-year-olds.

彼は7歳の学生のテスト点数とクラスの規模に関係があると考えている。