testatrix

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin testātrīx. By surface analysis, testator +‎ -trix. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tɛsˈteɪtɹɪks/ Rhymes: -eɪtɹɪks === Noun === testatrix (plural testatrices or testatrixes) (law) A female testator. ==== Related terms ==== testament testator testify testimonial testimony === References === “testatrix”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “testatrix”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “testatrix, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. == Latin == === Etymology === From testor, testātum (“to be witness, testify, attest; to make a will”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [tɛsˈtaː.triːks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [tesˈtaː.triks] === Noun === testātrīx f (genitive testātrīcis, masculine testātor); third declension a female testator; testatrix ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. === References === “testatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “testatrix”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.