Word Origin Summary

Testament is attested in French. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. testāmentumLatinderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• testament

  Dutch · derived from

• testament

  English · derived from

• testament

  French · derived from

• testamento

  Esperanto · borrowed from

• testamen

  Indonesian · derived from

• testamento

  IDO · derived from

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