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English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin test?mentum (“the publication of a will, a will, testament, in Late Latin one of the divisions of the Bible”), from testor (“I am a witness, testify, attest, make a will”), from testis (“one who attests, a witness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?st.?.m?nt/

Noun

testament (plural testaments)

1. (law) A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his or her will as to disposal of his or her inheritance (estate and effects) after his or her death, benefiting specified heir(s).

   Synonyms: will, last will and testament, last will

2. One of the two parts to the scriptures of the Christian religion: the New Testament, considered by Christians to be a continuation of the Hebrew scriptures, and the Hebrew scriptures themselves, which they refer to as the Old Testament.
3. A tangible proof or tribute.

4. A credo, expression of conviction

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• testament in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• testament in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• statement, tentmates

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin test?mentum.

Noun

testament m (plural testaments)

1. testament
2. will (document)

Derived terms

• Antic Testament
• Nou Testament

Further reading

• “testament” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “testament” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “testament” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “testament” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch testament, from Old French testament, from Latin test?mentum (“the publication of a will, a will, testament”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?sta?m?nt/
• Hyphenation: tes?ta?ment
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

testament n (plural testamenten, diminutive testamentje n)

1. (law) testament, last will

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: testamen

French

Etymology

From Old French testament, from Latin test?mentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?s.ta.m??/

Noun

testament m (plural testaments)

1. (law) testament, last will

Derived terms

Further reading

• “testament” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• testamente

Etymology

From Latin test?mentum, via Old Norse testament

Noun

testament n (definite singular testamentet, indefinite plural testament or testamenter, definite plural testamenta or testamentene)

1. (law) a will (and/or) testament

Related terms

• testamentere

References

• “testament” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• testamente

Etymology

From Latin test?mentum, via Old Norse testament

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?st??m?nt/

Noun

testament n (definite singular testamentet, indefinite plural testament, definite plural testamenta)

1. (law) a will, testament (declaration of disposal of inheritance)
2. (Christianity) a testament (one of the two parts of the Bible)

References

• “testament” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin test?mentum.

Noun

testament m (oblique plural testamenz or testamentz, nominative singular testamenz or testamentz, nominative plural testament)

1. testimony; statement

Descendants

• ? English: testament
• French: testament

Polish

Etymology

From Latin test?mentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??sta.m?nt/

Noun

testament m inan

1. (law) will, testament

Declension

Further reading

• testament in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• testament in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin testamentum

Noun

testament n (plural testamente)

1. will

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin test?mentum.

Noun

testàment m (Cyrillic spelling ??????????)

1. (law) the (last) will (legal document)

Declension

Related terms

• ?poruka (formal, Croatia)

English

Etymology

From Old French remembrance, from remembrer (“to remember”), from Late Latin rememor?r? (“to call to mind, to remember”). Equivalent to remember +? -ance.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??.?m?m.b??ns/
• Hyphenation: re?mem?brance

Noun

remembrance (countable and uncountable, plural remembrances)

1. The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection.
   • 1705, Joseph Addison, “Bolonia, Modena, Parma, Turin, &c.”, in Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, OCLC 181833922; republished The Hague: Printed for Henry Scheurleer, 1718, OCLC 224641578, page 292:

     For Titan, by the mightly Lo?s [of Phaëthon] di?may'd, / Among the Heav'ns th'Immortal Fact di?play'd, / Le?t the remembrance of his Grief ?hould fail, / And in Con?tellations wrote his Tale. [Translation of a work by Claudian.]

2. The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory, recollection.
   • 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which is to Come: Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream wherein is Discovered, the Manner of His Setting Out, His Dangerous Journey; and Safe Arrival at the Desired Countrey, London: Printed for Nath[aniel] Ponder at the Peacock in the Poultrey near Cornhill, OCLC 733063856; republished as The Pilgrim's Progress as Originally Published by John Bunyan: Being a Fac-simile Reproduction of the First Edition, London: Elliot Stock, 1875, OCLC 34741916, page 77:

     Yes, and did ?ee ?uch things there, the remembrance of which will ?tick by me as long as I live; ?pecially three things, to wit, How Chri?t, in de?pite of Satan, maintains his work of Grace in the heart; how the Man had ?inned him?elf quite out of hopes of Gods mercy; and al?o the Dream of him that thought in his ?leep the day of Judgement was come.

   • 1725–1726, Homer; Alexander Pope and William Broome, transl., The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek, London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, OCLC 8736646; republished as H[enry] F[rancis] Cary, editor, The Odyssey of Homer: Translated by Alexander Pope, London: George Routledge and Sons, the Broadway, Ludgate; New York, N.Y.: 416, Broome Street, 1872, OCLC 880970094, book VIII, page 381:

     […] Nausicaa blooming as a goddess stands, / With wondering eyes the hero [Odysseus] she survey'd / And grateful thus began the royal maid: / 'Hail, godlike stranger! and when heaven restores / To thy fond wish thy long-expected shores, / This, ever grateful, in remembrance bear, / To me thou owest, to me, the vital air.'
3. Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory.
4. That which serves to keep in or bring to mind; a memento, a memorial, a souvenir, a token; a memorandum or note of something to be remembered.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. Disposed into Twelue Books, Fashioning XII. Morall Vertues, London: Printed for W[illiam] Ponsonbie, OCLC 18024649, book I, canto I, stanzas I and II; republished in John Hughes, editor, The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser. In Six Volumes. With a Glossary Explaining the Old and Obscure Words, volume I, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson at Shakespear's Head, over against Catherine-street in the Strand, 1715, OCLC 175074, page 23:

     [stanza I] A Gentle Knight was pricking on the Plain, / Yclad in mightie Arms and ?ilver Shield, […] / [stanza II] And on his Brea?t a bloody Cro?s he bore, / The dear remembrance of his dying Lord, / For who?e ?weet ?ake that glorious Badge he wore, / And dead (as living) ever him ador'd: […]

5. The power of remembering; the reach of personal knowledge; the period over which one's memory extends.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker under Creed Church neer Aldgate; and by Robert Boulter at the Turks Head in Bishopsgate-street; and Matthias Walker, under St. Dunstons Church in Fleet-street, OCLC 767532218, book VIII; republished as Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books, London: Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, B. Dod, J[ohn] Rivington, J. Ward, J. Richardson, S. Crowder and Co., T[homas] Longman, E. Dilly, and A. and C. Corbet, 1760, OCLC 946737211, page 211, lines 203–205:

     Thee I have heard relating what was done / Ere my remembrance; now hear me relate / My ?tory, which perhaps thou ha?t not heard; […]

6. (obsolete) Something to be remembered; an admonition, counsel, instruction.

Synonyms

• recollection
• reminiscence

Derived terms

• remembrancer, Remembrancer
• Remembrance Day, Remembrance Sunday

Translations

See also

• memory

Old French

Noun

remembrance f (oblique plural remembrances, nominative singular remembrance, nominative plural remembrances)

1. recollection; memory

Descendants

• ? English: remembrance
• French: remembrance