testor

testor

1. (obsolete) A teston, a sixpence

• 1949, John Dover Wilson (compiler), Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes

• Tretos, ortets, otters, torest, torets, tortes, toters

From testis (“a witness”) +‎ -o.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtes.tor/, [ˈt̪ɛs̠t̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtes.tor/, [ˈt̪ɛst̪or]

testor (present infinitive testārī, perfect active testātus sum); first conjugation, deponent

1. to be witness, testify, attest
2. to summon as a witness, call to witness, invoke, entreat, swear by, appeal to
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.492–493:

     “Testor, cāra, deōs et tē, germāna, tuumque
     dulce caput, magicās invītam accingier artēs.”

     “I call to witness the gods, and you, dear sister, and your sweet life: [How] reluctant [I am] to arm [myself with] magical arts.”

3. to make a will

• “testor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “testor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• testor 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)
• testor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to call the gods to witness: testari deos (Sull. 31. 86)
    
  • this shows, proves..: testis est, testatur, declarat
    
• “testament”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.