testator

English

Alternative forms

• testatour (obsolete)

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /tɛsˈteɪ.tɚ/

Noun

testator (plural testators)

1. (law) One who dies having made a legally valid will.
   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎^[1]:

     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.

Related terms

• intestate
• testament
• testatrix
• testify
• testimonial
• testimony

Translations

One who dies having made a legally valid will

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 遺囑人／遗嘱人 (yízhǔrén), 遗嘱人 (yízhǔrén)

• Dutch: erflater (nl) m
• Esperanto: testamentanto
• Finnish: testamenttaaja (fi), perittävä
• French: testateur (fr) m, testatrice (fr) f
• German: Erblasser (de) m, Erblasserin (de) f
• Ido: testamentanto (io), testamentinto
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: tiomnóir m
• Italian: testatore (it) m
• Latin: lēgātor (la), testātor
• Manx: çhymneyder m
• Polish: testator (pl) m, spadkodawca (pl) m, spadkodawczyni f
• Russian: завеща́тель (ru) m (zaveščátelʹ), завеща́тельница (ru) f (zaveščátelʹnica), наследода́тель (ru) m (nasledodátelʹ), наследода́тельница (ru) f (nasledodátelʹnica)
• Swedish: testator (sv)

See also

• executor

Further reading

• “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

• attestor

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Latin

Etymology

testor (“I am witness, testify, attest; I make a will”) +‎ -ātor

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tesˈtaː.tor/, [t̪ɛs̠ˈt̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tesˈta.tor/, [t̪esˈt̪äːt̪or]

Noun

testātor m (genitive testātōris, feminine testātrīx); third declension

1. testator
2. witness

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	testātor	testātōrēs
Genitive	testātōris	testātōrum
Dative	testātōrī	testātōribus
Accusative	testātōrem	testātōrēs
Ablative	testātōre	testātōribus
Vocative	testātor	testātōrēs

Verb

(deprecated template usage) testātor

1. second-person singular future active imperative of testor
2. third-person singular future active imperative of testor

References

• “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.

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Polish

Etymology

From Latin testātor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛsˈta.tɔr/

Noun

testator m pers (female equivalent testatorka)

1. testator, legator, devisor

   Synonym: spadkodawca

Declension

Declension of testator

	singular	plural
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

• testator in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
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