testa

Meaning

1. (declension-1, feminine) a piece of burned clay, brick, tile
2. (declension-1, feminine) a piece of baked earthenware
3. (declension-1, feminine) a piece of baked earthenware
4. (declension-1, feminine) a piece of baked earthenware
5. (declension-1, feminine) a piece of baked earthenware
6. (declension-1, feminine) a piece of baked earthenware
7. (Late-Latin, declension-1, feminine) a piece of baked earthenware
8. (declension-1, feminine) a sort of clapping with the flat of the hands (as if with two tiles), in token of applause, invented by Nero

Concepts

brick

crock

shell

🐚

piece of broken crockery

Synonyms

later

concha

Translations

Scherbe

casco

clofolla

maó

petxina

Muschel

Tonscherbe

closca

Topfscherbe

Ziegel

’ostrako

ko’xili

brique

coquillage

صدفة

🎲

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈtɛs.ta]

Etymology

Unknown:
* Perhaps as if tosta, from torreō (“to burn, parch”).
* Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *tₔtḱ-t-, from *tetḱ- (“to create, produce”) (whence Latin texō (“to weave”)). Thus cognate with Middle Persian tšt' (tašt).
* Borrowed from a substrate language, as words for vessels often are.