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.

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

testator (plural testators)

1. (law) One who makes or has made a legally valid will.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, OCLC 1167497017:

     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
• testament
• testatrix
• testify
• testimonial
• testimony

• executor

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

• attestor

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tesˈtaː.tor/, [t̪ɛs̠ˈt̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tesˈta.tor/, [t̪esˈt̪äːt̪or]

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

Borrowed from Latin testātor.

• IPA^(key): /tɛsˈta.tɔr/
• Rhymes: -atɔr
• Syllabification: tes‧ta‧tor

testator m pers (feminine testatorka)

1. testator, legator, devisor

   Synonym: spadkodawca

• testator in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• testator in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From French testateur, from Latin testator.

testator m (plural testatori)

1. testator