"exam" in seven languages

Meaningexam

Spanish

examen

/ekˈsamen/

masc.learned

plural: exámenes

French

examen

/ɛgzamɛ̃/

masc.learned

Italian

esame

/eˈzame/

masc.learned

Portuguese

prova

/ˈpɾɔvɐ/

fem.other source · Portuguese provar 'to test', from Latin PROBĀRE

The school test is a prova; exame (EXĀMEN, learned) is for formal and medical exams.

Romanian

examen

/eɡˈzamen/

neut.learned

Catalan

examen

/əɡˈzamən/

masc.learned

English

exam

/ɪɡˈzæm/

from Latin/French · Latin exāmen

English → ItalianexamesameCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

EXĀMEN‘the tongue of a balance; also a swarm (from EXIGERE 'to weigh out')’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

An EXĀMEN was the needle of a pair of scales: an exam weighs you. Note the Spanish plural exámenes, which gains an accent to keep the stress.

English relatives: exam, examine, exact