testamentum

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• testamentom, testámentom, testámentum (all: archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin testāmentum (“will, testament”), from testārī (“to testify”), from testis (“witness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛʃtɒmɛntum]
• Hyphenation: tes‧ta‧men‧tum
• Rhymes: -um

Noun

testamentum (plural testamentumok)

1. (archaic) testament

   Synonym: végrendelet

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	testamentum	testamentumok
accusative	testamentumot	testamentumokat
dative	testamentumnak	testamentumoknak
instrumental	testamentummal	testamentumokkal
causal-final	testamentumért	testamentumokért
translative	testamentummá	testamentumokká
terminative	testamentumig	testamentumokig
essive-formal	testamentumként	testamentumokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	testamentumban	testamentumokban
superessive	testamentumon	testamentumokon
adessive	testamentumnál	testamentumoknál
illative	testamentumba	testamentumokba
sublative	testamentumra	testamentumokra
allative	testamentumhoz	testamentumokhoz
elative	testamentumból	testamentumokból
delative	testamentumról	testamentumokról
ablative	testamentumtól	testamentumoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	testamentumé	testamentumoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	testamentuméi	testamentumokéi

Possessive forms of testamentum
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	testamentumom	testamentumaim
2nd person sing.	testamentumod	testamentumaid
3rd person sing.	testamentuma	testamentumai
1st person plural	testamentumunk	testamentumaink
2nd person plural	testamentumotok	testamentumaitok
3rd person plural	testamentumuk	testamentumaik

Derived terms

• testamentumi
• testamentumos

 

Compound words

• Ótestamentum, Újtestamentum
• testamentumtétel, testamentumtevő

 

Related terms

• testál

 

Further reading

• testamentum in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Latin

Etymology

From testārī (“to testify”) +‎ -mentum (noun suffix). The biblical sense came about as a confused rendering of Ancient Greek διαθήκη (diathḗkē, “covenant, or (alternatively) will, testament”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tes.taːˈmen.tum/, [t̪ɛs̠t̪äːˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tes.taˈmen.tum/, [t̪est̪äˈmɛn̪t̪um]

Noun

testāmentum n (genitive testāmentī); second declension

1. will, testament
2. (religion) Testament

   Testamentum vetus et novum. ― The Old and New Testament.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter)

	singular	plural
nominative	testāmentum	testāmenta
genitive	testāmentī	testāmentōrum
dative	testāmentō	testāmentīs
accusative	testāmentum	testāmenta
ablative	testāmentō	testāmentīs
vocative	testāmentum	testāmenta

Derived terms

• Novum Testāmentum (“the New Testament”)
• testāmenta nūncupō (“I announce or acknowledge before witnesses”)
• testāmentārius (“of or belonging to wills”)
• testāmentī factiō (“legal capacity to participate in a will”)
• Vetus Testāmentum (“the Old Testament”)

 

Descendants

• Catalan: testament
• Old French: testament
  • French: testament
  • → Middle Dutch: testament
    • Dutch: testament
  • → Middle English:
    • English: testament
• → Hungarian: testamentum
• Italian: testamento
• Old Galician-Portuguese: testamento
  • Galician: testamento
  • Portuguese: testamento
• Old Spanish: testamento
  • Spanish: testamento
• Polish: testament
• Romanian: testament

See also

• cōdicillum

Further reading

• “testamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “testamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• testamentum 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)
• testamentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to make a will: testamentum facere, conscribere
    
  • to sign a will: testamentum obsignare (B. G. 1. 39)
    
  • to open a will: testamentum resignare
    
  • to declare a will to be null and void: testamentum rescindere
    
  • to produce a false will: testamentum subicere, supponere
    
  • to annul, revoke a will: testamentum irritum facere, rumpere
    
  • to prescribe in one's will: testamento aliquid cavere (Fin. 2. 31)
    
  • to appoint some one as heir in one's will: aliquem heredem testamento scribere, facere
    
• “testamentum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “testamentum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin