tentamen

Borrowed from Latin tentāmen (“attempt”).

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tentamen n (plural tentamens, diminutive tentamentje n)

1. an examination (especially in higher education)

• examen

• tentamineren

From tentō (“I try”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tenˈtaː.men/, [tɛnˈtaː.mɛn]

tentāmen n (genitive tentāminis); third declension

1. an attempt
2. (modern) a literary attempt: an essay
   • 1719, Johann Jakob Brucker:

     Tentamen Introductionis in Historiam Doctrinae Logicae de Ideis

     An Essay Introducing the History of the Logical Doctrine of Ideas

Third declension neuter.

• Dutch: tentamen
• Swedish: tentamen, tenta

• tentamen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tentamen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

From Latin tentāmen (“an attempt”)

tentamen c

1. an examination

• (contraction): tenta

•  tentera