Words that come from Latin tersus

158 words across 34 languages descend from Latin tersus — including test, testing, terse, pretest, testable, posttest, tersely, retest.

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English (56)

Finnish (15)

French (11)

Italian (8)

Latin (6)

Hungarian (5)

German (5)

Turkish (4)

Russian (4)

Spanish (4)

Norman (4)

Romanian (4)

Portuguese (3)

Old French (3)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Middle English (3)

Danish (2)

Haitian Creole (2)

Dutch (1)

Korean (1)

Greek (1)

Japanese (1)

Hebrew (1)

Galician (1)

Middle French (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Persian (1)

Walloon (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Middle High German (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Vulgar Latin (1)