# testamentum
## Hungarian
### Alternative forms

* testamentom, testámentom, testámentum (all: archaic)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtɛʃtɒmɛntum]
* Hyphenation: tes‧ta‧men‧tum
* Rhymes: -um

### Noun

testamentum (plural testamentumok)
* (archaic) testament
    Synonym: végrendelet

#### Derived terms

* testamentumi
* testamentumos
* Ótestamentum, Újtestamentum
* testamentumtétel, testamentumtevő

#### Related terms

* testál

### Further reading

* 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

## Latin
### Etymology

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”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /tes.taːˈmen.tum/, [t̪ɛs̠t̪äːˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /tes.taˈmen.tum/, [t̪est̪äˈmɛn̪t̪um]

### Noun

testāmentum n (genitive testāmentī); second declension
* will, testament
* (religion) Testament
    Testamentum vetus et novum. ― The Old and New Testament.

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

#### Derived terms

* Novum Testāmentum (“the New Testament”)
* testāmenta nūncupō (“I announce or acknowledge before witnesses”)
* testāmentārius (“of or belonging to wills”)
* testāmentī factiō (“legal capacity to participate in a will”)
* Vetus Testāmentum (“the Old Testament”)

#### Descendants

* Catalan: testament
* Old French: testament
** French: testament
** → Middle Dutch: testament
*** Dutch: testament
** → Middle English:
*** English: testament
* → Hungarian: testamentum
* Italian: testamento
* Old Galician-Portuguese: testamento
** Galician: testamento
** Portuguese: testamento
* Old Spanish: testamento
** Spanish: testamento
* Polish: testament
* Romanian: testament

### See also

* cōdicillum

### References

* ↑ https://www.etymonline.com/word/testament#etymonline_v_10679

### Further reading

* “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