testatrix

Learned borrowing from Latin testātrīx. By surface analysis, testator +‎ -trix.

• IPA^(key): /tɛsˈteɪtɹɪks/

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• Rhymes: -eɪtɹɪks

testatrix (plural testatrices or testatrixes)

1. (law) A female testator.^[1]

• testament
• testator
• testify
• testimonial
• testimony

• “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.

From testor, testātum (“to be witness, testify, attest; to make a will”, verb) +‎ -trīx f (“-ess”, agentive suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [tɛsˈtaː.triːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t̪esˈt̪aː.t̪riks]

testātrīx f (genitive testātrīcis, masculine testātor); third declension

1. a female testator; testatrix

Third-declension noun.

• “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.