tentamen

Borrowed from Latin tentāmen (“attempt”).

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tentamen n (plural tentamens, diminutive tentamentje n)

1. an examination (especially in higher education)

• examen

• tentamineren

• → Indonesian: tentamen

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

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

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

1. (education) examination.

   Synonym: ujian

   Salah satu stresor pada mahasiswa adalah tentamen anatomi. ― One of student stressors is anatomy [practical] examination.

• “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.

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

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

tentāmen n (genitive tentāminis); third declension

1. an attempt
2. (New Latin) a literary attempt: an essay
   • 1719, Johann Jakob Brucker, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     Tentamen Introductionis in Historiam Doctrinae Logicae de Ideis

     An Essay Introducing the History of the Logical Doctrine of Ideas

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

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

• “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.

From Latin tentāmen (“an attempt”).

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tentamen c

1. an examination

• (contraction): tenta

• tentera