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Latin
Etymology
From con- + testor.
Pronunciation
Verb
contestor (present infinitive contestārī, perfect active contestātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- to call to witness
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “contestor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “contestor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- contestor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to call gods and men to witness: contestari deos hominesque