legator

From Latin lēgātor (“testator”).

• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

legator (plural legators)

1. (law, uncommon) A testator.
2. (by extension) A donor.

• gelator, gloater

From lēgō (“leave or bequeath as a legacy”) +‎ -tor.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /leːˈɡaː.tor/, [ɫ̪eːˈɡäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /leˈɡa.tor/, [leˈɡäːt̪or]

lēgātor m (genitive lēgātōris); third declension

1. Somebody who leaves something by will or leaves a legacy; testator.

Third-declension noun.

• (testator): testātor

• English: legator

• “legator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• legator 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)
• legator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.