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

• (US) IPA^(key): /tesˈteɪ.tɚ/

Noun

testator (plural testators)

1. (law) One who dies having made a legally valid will.

Related terms

• testament
• testatrix
• testify
• testimonial
• testimony

See also

• executor

Translations

One who dies having made a legally valid will

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 遺囑人, 遗嘱人 (yízhǔrén)

• Esperanto: testamentanto
• Finnish: testamenttaaja (fi), perittävä
• French: testateur (fr) m, testatrice (fr) f
• German: Erblasser (de) m, Erblasserin (de) f
• Ido: testamentanto (io), testamentinto

• Irish: tiomnóir m
• Italian: testatore (it) m
• Latin: legator, testator
• Manx: çhymneyder m
• Polish: testator (pl) m
• Russian: завеща́тель (ru) m (zaveščátelʹ), завеща́тельница (ru) f (zaveščátelʹnica), наследода́тель (ru) m (nasledodátelʹ), наследода́тельница (ru) f (nasledodátelʹnica)

Further reading

• testator in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• testator in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• attestor

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tesˈtaː.tor/, [tɛsˈtaː.tɔr]

Noun

testātor m (genitive testātōris); third declension

1. testator
2. witness

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	testātor	testātōrēs
genitive	testātōris	testātōrum
dative	testātōrī	testātōribus
accusative	testātōrem	testātōrēs
ablative	testātōre	testātōribus
vocative	testātor	testātōrēs

Verb

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
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “testator”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “testator” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)