Where does “tentamen” come from?
tentamen (Dutch) comes from Latin tentamen, from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.
tentamen (Dutch): an examination
Ancestry of “tentamen”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | tentamen | an attempt; a literary attempt: an essay |
| 2 | Latin | -men | forms neuter nouns of the third declension |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | *-mn̥ | — |