Testamentum, testamenti, n. g. Cic.A testament or last wil.Libertas testamentorum. Quint. Subiector testamentorum.Cic.A subbowour of mils.Improbum testamentum, Vide IMPROBVS.Inofficiosum testamentum, Vide INOFFISIOSVS. Cauere testamento, Vide CAVEO.Componere testamentum.Cic.To make a testament.Conscribere testamentum.Cic.Facere testamentum.Cic.Irritum testamentum facere.Cic.Habere factionem testamenti. Ci. To haue power to make a wil.Improbare testamentum, Vide INPROSVS.Testamento tutorem institui, vel fieri, aut cieari Liui.To be appointed gatdian by testament.Mutare testamentum.Cic.To chaunge his wil.Nuncupatum testamentum, Vide NVNCVPO.Obsignare testamentum.Cic.Relinquere testamento. Ci. To leaue to one by his last wil.Resignare testamentum. Hor. To unseale a testament.Ruptum & Ratum testamentum, contraria.Cic.Supponere & subijcere testamenta. Cice, To suborne false wils.Supponere falsa testamenta.Cic.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
testāmentum, i, n. [testor], the publication of a last will or testament; a will, testament (cf. codicilli). I. In gen., Gell. 7 (6), 12, 1 sqq.: testamentum est voluntatis nostrae justa sententia de eo, quod quis post mortem suam fieri velit, Dig. 28, 1, 1: testamentum legere ... obsignare ... facere, Cic. Mil. 18, 48; id. Verr. 2, 1, 43, 111; cf.: testamenti factio, id. Top. 11, 50: testamenti factionem habere, id. Fam. 7, 21: testamentum conscribere, id. Har. Resp. 20, 42: obsignare, id. Clu. 14, 41; Caes. B. G. 1, 39: signare, Quint. 4, 2, 87: mutare, Cic. Clu. 11, 31; Dig. 29, 6, 1: rumpere, Cic. de Or. 1, 57, 241; id. Caecin. 25, 72; cf.: testamentorum ruptorum aut ratorum jura, id. de Or. 1, 38, 173: constat agnascendo rumpi testamentum, id. ib. 1, 57, 241; Dig. 28, 2, 22 sqq.: irritum facere, Cic. Phil. 2, 42, 109: subicere, id. ib. 14, 3, 7; id. Par. 6, 2, 46; cf.: testamentorum subjector, id. Cat. 2, 4, 7: supponere, id. Par. 6, 1, 43; cf. id. Leg. 1, 16, 43: testamento cavere aliquid, id. Fin. 2, 31, 102: testamento esse in triente, id. Att. 7, 8, 3: eripis hereditatem, quae venerat testamento, id. Verr. 2, 2, 18, 46: cum ex testamento HS. milies relinquatur, id. Off. 3, 24, 93: testamenta resignare, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 9: testamento aliquem adoptare, Nep. Att. 5, 2: testamenta nuncupare, to announce or acknowledge before witnesses, Plin. 14, 22, 28, 141; Plin. Ep. 8, 18, 5.—Concerning the three different kinds of testaments (calatis comitiis, per aes ad libram, and in procinctu), and the laws relating to wills in gen., v. Lübker, Real-Lex., s.v. Testamentum, and esp. Rein, Privatr. p. 363 sq.—II. In eccl. Lat: Testamentum vetus et novum, the Old and New Testaments, cf. Lact. 4, 20, 4; Tert. adv. Marc. 1, 1: vetus, Vulg. 2 Cor. 3, 14: novum, ib. 3, 6.