testé

testé (feminine testée, masculine plural testés, feminine plural testées)

1. past participle of tester

• tètes, têtes, tétés

test +‎ -é (non-attributive possessive suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛʃteː]
• Hyphenation: tes‧té
• Homophone: testté

testé

1. non-attributive possessive singular of test

From earlier testeso.

• IPA^(key): /teˈste/^*
• Rhymes: -e
• Hyphenation: te‧sté

testé (archaic, literary)

1. just now, just

   Synonyms: or ora, poco fa

   • 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, Decamerone, Tommaso Hedlin (1527), page 218:

     Io ho teſte ricevute lettere da Meſſina, [...]

     I have just now received letters from Messina [...]

2. now, right now; forthwith

   Synonyms: adesso, ora

   • 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (1994), Canto XXIX, p. 430, vv. 37-39:

     [...] convien che questa caggia ¶ infra tre soli, e che l'altra sormonti ¶ con la forza di tal che testé piaggia.

     [...] behoves it this one fall ¶ within three suns, and rise again the other ¶ by force of him who now is on the coast.

3. shortly, soon, in a short while

   Synonyms: presto, tra poco

   • 1399, Franco Sacchetti, Il Trecentonovelle (Novelle - Parte seconda, (1724)), Novella CXLVII:

     [...] 'l tale paſſerà teſtè qui, che viene dal luogo ſuo, ed haſſi piene le brache d'uova.

     [...] the man will shortly be here, coming from his place, with his trousers filled with eggs.

• Sette, sette

testé

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of testar