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# {{lb|en|legal}} One who [[make]]s or has made a [[legally]] [[valid]] [[will]]. |
# {{lb|en|legal}} One who [[make]]s or has made a [[legally]] [[valid]] [[will]]. |
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#* {{quote-book|en|year=1881|title={{w|The Common Law (book)|The Common Law}}|author=Oliver Wendell Holmes|authorlink=Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2449/pg2449-images.html|passage={{...|Baron Parke, after laying down that in general a party is not required to make profert of an instrument to the possession of which he is not entitled, says that}} 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”.}} |
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#* {{RQ:Haggard She|passage=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.}} |
#* {{RQ:Haggard She|passage=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.}} |
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Revision as of 19:17, 31 March 2023
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
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- Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Noun
testator (plural testators)
- (law) One who makes or has made a legally valid will.
- 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.
Related terms
Translations
One who makes or has made a legally valid will
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See also
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
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
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
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.
Polish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
testator m pers (female equivalent testatorka)
- 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
- testator in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
From French testateur, from Latin testator.
Noun
testator m (plural testatori)
Declension
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 |
Categories:
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/eɪtə(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/eɪtə(ɹ)/3 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Law
- English terms with quotations
- en:People
- Latin terms suffixed with -tor
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin third declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the third declension
- Latin masculine nouns
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin verb forms
- Polish terms borrowed from Latin
- Polish terms derived from Latin
- Polish 3-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/atɔr
- Rhymes:Polish/atɔr/3 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish personal nouns
- pl:Male people
- Romanian terms borrowed from French
- Romanian terms derived from French
- Romanian terms derived from Latin
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian masculine nouns