testamentum

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Hungarian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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testamentum (plural testamentumok)

  1. (archaic) testament
    Synonym: végrendelet

Declension

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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

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Further reading

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Latin

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Etymology

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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).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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testāmentum n (genitive testāmentī); second declension

  1. will, testament
  2. (religion) Testament
    Testamentum vetus et novum.The Old and New Testament.

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative testāmentum testāmenta
Genitive testāmentī testāmentōrum
Dative testāmentō testāmentīs
Accusative testāmentum testāmenta
Ablative testāmentō testāmentīs
Vocative testāmentum testāmenta

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Descendants

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See also

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References

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Further reading

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  • 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