testamentum

• testamentom, testámentom, testámentum (all: archaic)

Borrowed from Latin testāmentum (“will, testament”), from testārī (“to testify”), from testis (“witness”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛʃtɒmɛntum]
• Hyphenation: tes‧ta‧men‧tum
• Rhymes: -um

testamentum (plural testamentumok)

1. (archaic) testament

   Synonym: végrendelet

• testamentum in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From testārī (“to testify”) +‎ -mentum (noun suffix). The biblical sense came about as a confused rendering of Ancient Greek διαθήκη (diathḗkē, “covenant, or (alternatively) will, testament”).[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tes.taːˈmen.tum/, [t̪ɛs̠t̪äːˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tes.taˈmen.tum/, [t̪est̪äˈmɛn̪t̪um]

testāmentum n (genitive testāmentī); second declension

1. will, testament
2. (religion) Testament

   Testamentum vetus et novum. ― The Old and New Testament.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• cōdicillum

• “testamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “testamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• testamentum 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)
• testamentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to make a will: testamentum facere, conscribere
    
  • to sign a will: testamentum obsignare (B. G. 1. 39)
    
  • to open a will: testamentum resignare
    
  • to declare a will to be null and void: testamentum rescindere
    
  • to produce a false will: testamentum subicere, supponere
    
  • to annul, revoke a will: testamentum irritum facere, rumpere
    
  • to prescribe in one's will: testamento aliquid cavere (Fin. 2. 31)
    
  • to appoint some one as heir in one's will: aliquem heredem testamento scribere, facere
    
• “testamentum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “testamentum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin