Where does “tentamen” come from?

tentamen (Dutch) comes from Latin tentamen, from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.

tentamen (Dutch): an examination

Definitions

  1. an examination

Ancestry of “tentamen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latintentamenan attempt; a literary attempt: an essay
2Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
3Proto-Italic*-mn̥—

Words derived from “tentamen”

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