English
eprouvette
Eprouvette comes from French éprouvette ‘test tube’.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentéprouvette‘test tube’
- Englishearliest quotation 2009eprouvette
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentéprouvette‘test tube’
- Englishearliest quotation 2009eprouvette
Earliest quotation: 2009, Dwight Garner, For Those Who Like Danger, the Home Book of Things Not to Tr: “From there, he’s on to making things like fuses,…”
Every English word from French éprouvette
Today it means
noun A one-piece, fixed-elevation mortar formerly used to test the strength of gunpowder.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French éprouvette / eprouvette