FromLatinexāmen(“the tongue of a balance, examination”), forexagmen, fromexigere(“to weigh accurately, to treat”): compareFrenchexamen. Seeexact.
examen (pluralexamens)
- (obsolete)examination;inquiry
- July 11, 1780,William Cowper,letter to the Rev. William Unwin
- For this reason I decline answering the question with which you concluded your last, and cannot persuade myself to enter into a criticalexamen of the two pieces upon Lord Mansfield's loss […]
Borrowed fromLatinexāmen. Compare the inheritedeixam.
examen m (pluralexàmens)
- exam,test
- Synonym:examinació
- “examen”, inDiccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition,Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan:Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “examen”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2025
- “examen” inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “examen” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
FromMiddle Dutchexamen, fromLatinexāmen.
examen n (pluralexamensorexamina,diminutiveexamentje n)
- exam,examination, majortest
- “examen” inWoordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
Learned borrowing fromLatinexāmen.Doublet ofessaim.
examen m (pluralexamens)
- examination,inspection,study,analysis
- examen despièces à conviction ―(please add an English translation of this usage example)
- examen de conscience ―(please add an English translation of this usage example)
- mettre enexamen ―(please add an English translation of this usage example)
- mise enexamen ―(please add an English translation of this usage example)
- exam,test
- examen oral ―oral exam
- examen écrit ―written test
- examen blanc ―mockexam
- examen médical ―medicaltest
- examen d'admission,examen d'entrée ―entranceexamination
From*exagmen,ex-(“out”) +agō(“to drive”) +-men(noun-forming suffix, indicating the means, instrument, or result of an action). Compare the meanings again of weighing in Ancient Greekᾰ̓́ξῐος(ắxĭos) of same root.
exāmen n (genitiveexāminis);third declension
- swarm ofbees;crowd
examen apum- A swarm of bees
- tongue of abalance
- aconsideration, anexamining
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
- Italo-Dalmatian:
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Gallo-Italic:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Ancient borrowings:
- “examen”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “examen”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "examen", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “examen”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “examen”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “examen”, inWilliam Smith et al., editor (1890),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Borrowed fromLatinexāmen.
examen n (pluralexamene)
- exam,examination,test
Borrowed fromLatinexāmen.
examen m (pluralexamens)
- exam
- (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”)
Borrowed fromLatinexāmen. Compare the inherited doubletenjambre.
- IPA(key): /eɡˈsamen/[eɣ̞ˈsa.mẽn]
- Rhymes:-amen
- Syllabification:e‧xa‧men
examen m (pluralexámenes)
- exam,examination,test
- Synonym:prueba
Borrowed fromLatinexāmen.
examen c
- exam
- graduation
- degree
- Den sökande bör ha en examen i ekonomi
- The applicant should have a degree in economics.
