testator
English
editAlternative forms
edit- testatour (obsolete)
Etymology
editFrom 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
editNoun
edittestator (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
editTranslations
editOne who makes or has made a legally valid will
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See also
editFurther 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
editLatin
editEtymology
edittestor (“I am witness, testify, attest; I make a will”) + -ātor
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /tesˈtaː.tor/, [t̪ɛs̠ˈt̪äːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /tesˈta.tor/, [t̪esˈt̪äːt̪or]
Noun
edittestātor m (genitive testātōris, feminine testātrīx); third declension
Declension
editThird-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | testātor | testātōrēs |
Genitive | testātōris | testātōrum |
Dative | testātōrī | testātōribus |
Accusative | testātōrem | testātōrēs |
Ablative | testātōre | testātōribus |
Vocative | testātor | testātōrēs |
Descendants
editVerb
edittestātor
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
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin testātor.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittestator m pers (female equivalent testatorka)
- testator, legator, devisor
- Synonym: spadkodawca
Declension
editDeclension 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
edit- testator in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French testateur, from Latin testator.
Noun
edittestator m (plural testatori)
Declension
editDeclension of testator
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
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 |
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