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English
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
Noun
testator (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:[…] 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 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
Translations
One who makes or has made a legally valid will
- Catalan: testador (ca) m, testadora (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 遺囑人 / 遗嘱人 (yízhǔrén)
- Czech: zůstavitel m
- Dutch: erflater (nl) m
- Esperanto: testamentanto
- Finnish: testamenttaaja (fi), perittävä
- French: testateur (fr) m, testatrice (fr) f
- German: Erblasser (de) m, Erblasserin (de) f
- Greek: διαθέτης (el) m (diathétis)
- Ido: testamentanto (io), testamentinto
- Irish: tiomnóir m
- Italian: testatore (it) m
- Japanese: 遺言者 (yuigonsha)
- Latin: lēgātor (la), testātor
- Manx: çhymneyder m
- Maori: kaitukuwira
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: arvelater m, testator m
- Polish: testator (pl) m, spadkodawca (pl) m, spadkodawczyni f
- Russian: завеща́тель (ru) m (zaveščátelʹ), завеща́тельница (ru) f (zaveščátelʹnica), наследода́тель (ru) m (nasledodátelʹ), наследода́тельница (ru) f (nasledodátelʹnica)
- Spanish: testador (es) m, testadora f
- Swedish: testator (sv)
- Ukrainian: запові́да́ч m (zapovídáč), запові́да́чка f (zapovídáčka), спадкода́вець m (spadkodávecʹ), спадкода́виця f (spadkodávycja)
- Welsh: ewyllysiwr m
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See also
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
Latin
Etymology
testor (“I am witness, testify, attest; I make a will”) + -ātor
Pronunciation
Noun
testātor m (genitive testātōris, feminine testātrīx); third declension
- testator
- witness
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
Verb
testātor
- second/third-person singular future active imperative of testor
References
Polish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin testātor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛsˈta.tɔr/
- Rhymes: -atɔr
- Syllabification: tes‧ta‧tor
Noun
testator m pers (female equivalent testatorka)
- testator, legator, devisor
- Synonym: spadkodawca
Declension
Further reading
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French testateur, from Latin testator.
Noun
testator m (plural testatori)
- testator
Declension