intestate

From Latin intestātus, from in- (“not”) + testātus (“testate”).

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɛsteɪt/

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intestate (not comparable)

1. Without a valid will indicating whom to leave one's estate to after death.
2. Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will.

• testate

• intestacy

intestate (plural intestates)

1. (law) A person who dies without making a valid will.
   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, OCLC 65350522:

     the surplusages of intestates […] after the expiration of one full year from the death of the intestate is to be distributed : one - third to the widow of the intestate, and the residue in equal proportions to his children ; or if dead to their representatives : that is , their lineal descendants

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

• enstatite, satinette

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tɛs.tat/

intestate

1. feminine singular of intestat

intestate f (plural intestates)

1. female equivalent of intestat

intestate

1. inflection of intestare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

intestate f pl

1. feminine plural of intestato

• astenetti, attenesti, enstatite, stentiate, testatine

intestāte

1. vocative masculine singular of intestātus