examen

From Latin exāmen (“the tongue of a balance, examination”), for exagmen, from exigere (“to weigh accurately, to treat”): compare French examen. See exact.

• IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzeɪ.mən/

examen (plural examens)

1. (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 critical examen of the two pieces upon Lord Mansfield's loss […]

• “examen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• axemen

Borrowed from Latin exāmen. Compare the inherited eixam.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əɡˈza.mən]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [eɡˈza.men]

examen m (plural exàmens)

1. exam, test

   Synonym: examinació

• examinar

• “examen” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “examen”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “examen” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “examen” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• eksamen (before 1996)

From Middle Dutch examen, from Latin exāmen.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛkˈsaː.mə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: exa‧men
• Rhymes: -aːmən

examen n (plural examens or examina, diminutive examentje n)

1. exam, examination, major test

• tentamen
• toets

• bevorderingsexamen
• eindexamen
• examenkoorts
• examenuitslag
• examineren
• groootambtenaarsexamen
• kerstexamen
• paasexamen
• praktijkexamen
• rijexamen
• schoolexamen
• staatsexamen
• theorie-examen
• toelatingsexamen

• examinator

• → Indonesian: eksamen
• → Kwinti: exame
• → Papiamentu: èksamen

• “examen” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Borrowed from Latin exāmen. Doublet of essaim.

• IPA^(key): /ɛɡ.za.mɛ̃/, /eɡ.za.mɛ̃/

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• Homophone: examens

examen m (plural examens)

1. exam, test

• examen blanc
• examen médical
• examen d’admission
• examen d’entrée
• examen de conscience
• mettre en examen
• mise en examen

• “examen”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From *exagmen, ex- (“out”) +‎ agō (“I drive”) +‎ -men. Compare the meanings again of weighing in Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́ξῐος (áxios) of same root.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ekˈsaː.men/, [ɛkˈs̠äːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ekˈsa.men/, [eɡˈzäːmen]

exāmen n (genitive exāminis); third declension

1. swarm of bees; crowd

   examen apum

   A swarm of bees

2. tongue of a balance
3. a consideration, an examining

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

• exāminō

• Balkan Romance:
  • → Albanian: shemë
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: insamina
  • Italian: sciame
  • Sicilian: sciamu
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: scuam
  • Lombard: sam
  • Piedmontese: essam
  • Romansch: sem, som
  • Venetian: same, samo
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: eixam
  • Franco-Provençal: èssem
  • French: essaim
  • Occitan: eissam
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: xambre, ixambre, jambre, jambriau, ixame, chambre
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: eixame
    • Fala: enxami, enxemi, inxami
    • Galician: enxame
    • Portuguese: enxame
  • Old Spanish: ensamne
    • Spanish: enjambre
      • → Northern Puebla Nahuatl: jambre

Borrowings:

• → Catalan: examen
• → English: examen
• → French: examen
• → Friulian: esam
• → German: Examen
• → Italian: esame
  • → Ido: esamo
• → Middle Dutch: examen
  • Dutch: examen, eksamen
    • → Indonesian: eksamen
    • → Kwinti: exame
    • → Papiamentu: èksamen
• → Polish: egzamin
• → Portuguese: exame
• → Romanian: examen
• → Romansch: examen
• → Russian: экзамен (ekzamen)
• → Spanish: examen
• → Swedish: examen
• → Ukrainian: екзамен (ekzamen)
• → Venetian: exame

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “examen”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 3: D–F, page 257

• “examen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “examen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• examen in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• examen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “examen”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “examen”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Borrowed from Latin exāmen.

• IPA^(key): [eɡˈza.men]

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examen n (plural examene)

1. exam, examination, test

• examen in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Borrowed from Latin exāmen.

examen m (plural examens)

1. 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 from Latin exāmen. Compare the inherited doublet enjambre.

• IPA^(key): /eɡˈsamen/ [eɣ̞ˈsa.mẽn]
• Rhymes: -amen
• Syllabification: e‧xa‧men

examen m (plural exámenes)

1. exam, examination, test

• “examen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from Latin exāmen.

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examen c

1. exam
2. graduation
3. degree

   Den sökande bör ha en examen i ekonomi

   The applicant should have a degree in economics.

• (exam): examination

• studenten
• tentamen