testator
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- testatour (obsolete)
Etymology edit
From Latin testator (“one who makes a will, in Late Latin also one who bears witness”), from testari (“to bear witness, make a will”). See testament.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
testator (plural testators)
- (law) One who makes or has made a legally valid will.
- Synonyms: devisor, (uncommon) legator, testamentor
- 1881, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Common Law[1]:
- […] there is an exception “in the cases of heir and executor, who may plead a release to the ancestor or testator whom they respectively represent; so also with respect to several tortfeasors, for in all these cases there is a privity between the parties which constitutes an identity of person”.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- As it is, knowing that the testator was a gentleman of the highest intelligence and acumen, and that he has absolutely no relations living to whom he could have confided the guardianship of the child, we do not feel justified in taking this course.
Antonyms edit
- intestate (noun)
Related terms edit
Translations edit
One who makes or has made a legally valid will
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See also edit
Further reading edit
- “testator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “testator”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
testor (“I am witness, testify, attest; I make a will”) + -ātor
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /tesˈtaː.tor/, [t̪ɛs̠ˈt̪äːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /tesˈta.tor/, [t̪esˈt̪äːt̪or]
Noun edit
testātor m (genitive testātōris, feminine testātrīx); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | testātor | testātōrēs |
Genitive | testātōris | testātōrum |
Dative | testātōrī | testātōribus |
Accusative | testātōrem | testātōrēs |
Ablative | testātōre | testātōribus |
Vocative | testātor | testātōrēs |
Descendants edit
Verb edit
testātor
References edit
- “testator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- testator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- testator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin testātor.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
testator m pers (female equivalent testatorka)
- testator, legator, devisor
- Synonym: spadkodawca
Declension edit
Declension of testator
singular | plural | |
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nominative | testator | testatorzy/testatory (deprecative) |
genitive | testatora | testatorów |
dative | testatorowi | testatorom |
accusative | testatora | testatorów |
instrumental | testatorem | testatorami |
locative | testatorze | testatorach |
vocative | testatorze | testatorzy |
Further reading edit
- testator in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French testateur, from Latin testator.
Noun edit
testator m (plural testatori)
Declension edit
Declension of testator
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) testator | testatorul | (niște) testatori | testatorii |
genitive/dative | (unui) testator | testatorului | (unor) testatori | testatorilor |
vocative | testatorule | testatorilor |