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.

Related terms

• 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
• Russian: завеща́тель (ru) m (zaveščátelʹ), завеща́тельница (ru) f (zaveščátelʹnica), наследода́тель (ru) m (nasledodátelʹ), наследода́тельница (ru) f (nasledodátelʹnica)

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); 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.