testator

• testatour (obsolete)

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.

• IPA^(key): (General American) /ˈtɛˌsteɪ.tɚ/, /tɛsˈteɪ.tɚ/
• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

testator (plural testators)

1. (law) One who makes or has made a legally valid will.

   Synonyms: devisor, (uncommon) legator, testamentor

   • 1881, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Common Law‎^[1]:

     […] 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[enry] 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.

• intestate (noun)

• testament
• testatrix
• testify
• testimonial
• testimony

• executor

• “testator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “testator”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• attestor

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [tɛsˈtaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t̪esˈt̪aː.t̪or]

testātor m (genitive testātōris, feminine testātrīx); third declension

1. testator
2. witness

Third-declension noun.

testātor

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of testor

• “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.

Learned borrowing from Latin testātor.

• IPA^(key): /tɛsˈta.tɔr/

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• Rhymes: -atɔr
• Syllabification: tes‧ta‧tor

testator m pers (female equivalent testatorka)

1. testator, legator, devisor

   Synonym: spadkodawca

• testator in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French testateur, from Latin testator.

testator m (plural testatori)

1. testator