Etymology

testiere

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Today it means: Complete armour for a horse's head. Full definition →

Middle English tester ← Old French testier(e)
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromtestier(e)
  2. Middle English · inherited fromtester
  3. English todaytestiere

From Middle English tester, from Old French testier(e), whence also French têtière (older testière).

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishtester all →

tester

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.