executor

English

Alternative forms

• executour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English executour, from Anglo-Norman executour, from Latin exsecūtor, agent noun of exsequor.

Pronunciation

• (of a will): IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzɛkjʊtɚ/

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• (other senses): IPA^(key): /ˈɛksɪˌkjuːtɚ/, /ɪɡˈzɛkjʊtɚ/

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Noun

executor (plural executors)

1. A person who carries out some task.
   • 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 192:

     This manner can no longer be considered "folk-song," yet neither can it be taken as "art-song," at least not conscious art, for the executors, the chazzanim, did not know of any theory of music and modulation.

2. (computing) A component of a system that executes or runs something.
   • 2014, Robert Kowalski, Thom Frühwirth, Logic for Problem Solving, Revisited, page 114:

     When searching for a solution is unnecessary, then the program executor "doesn't care" which solution is generated nor how it is obtained.

3. (law) Someone appointed by a testator to administer their estate in accordance with their will; an administrator.

   literary executor

   • 1847, editorial staff, “Packing and Pressing Cotton”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 9, page 68:

     Mary Ann Mead (executor of James Mead deceased,) of Aurora, Ia., for improvements in packing and pressing cotton.

4. (obsolete) An executioner.
   • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], line 203:

     The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum, / Delivering o'er to executors pale / The lazy yawning drone.

Usage notes

• In a law context, the female executrix is sometimes used.

Derived terms

• coexecutor
• dative executor
• executor de son tort
• executorship
• executress
• executry
• literary executor
• nominate executor
• subexecutor
• will executor

Related terms

• execute
• executrix

Translations

one who carries out some task

• Arabic: مُنْجِز m (munjiz), مُنَفِّذ (ar) m (munaffiḏ)
• Belarusian: выкана́ўца m (vykanáwca)
• Bulgarian: изпълнител (bg) m (izpălnitel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 執行者 / 执行者 (zh) (zhíxíngzhě)

• Finnish: toimeenpanija (fi), toteuttaja (fi)
• French: exécuteur (fr) m, exécutrice (fr) f
• Galician: compridor m, cabeceiro (gl) m, testamenteiro (gl) m
• Hungarian: végrehajtó (hu)
• Irish: seiceadóir m
• Italian: esecutore (it) m, esecutrice f
• Māori: kaiwhakaoti
• Polish: wykonawca (pl) m, wykonawczyni (pl) f
• Romanian: executor (ro) m, executoare f
• Russian: исполни́тель (ru) m (ispolnítelʹ), исполни́тельница (ru) f (ispolnítelʹnica)
• Spanish: albacea (es) m or f, ejecutor (es) m
• Swahili: mfanya, mfanyi, mrithisha, mrithishi, mtekelezaji, wasii
• Ukrainian: викона́вець m (vykonávecʹ), викона́виця f (vykonávycja)

someone appointed by a testator to administer a will

• Arabic: وَصِيّ (ar) m or f (waṣiyy), وَلِيّ m (waliyy)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 執行者 / 执行者 (zh) (zhíxíngzhě)

• Dutch: (Netherlands) executeur-testamentair m, (Belgium) testamentuitvoerder m
• Finnish: pesänjakaja (fi)
• French: exécuteur (fr) m, exécuteur testamentaire m
• Galician: compridor m, cabeceiro (gl) m, testamenteiro (gl) m
• German: Testamentsvollstrecker (de) m, Testamentsvollstreckerin f
• Irish: seiceadóir m
• Italian: esecutore testamentario m
• Japanese: 執行者 (shikkōsha)
• Māori: kaiwhakaoti (wira)
• Plautdietsch: Väaminda m
• Polish: wykonawca testamentu m
• Portuguese: testamenteiro m, executor testamentário m
• Romanian: executor testamentar (ro) m
• Russian: душеприка́зчик (ru) (dušeprikázčik), душеприка́зчица (ru) f (dušeprikázčica), исполни́тель (ru) m (ispolnítelʹ), исполни́тельница (ru) f (ispolnítelʹnica)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wuwjeźaŕ testamenta m

• Spanish: albacea (es) m
• Welsh: ysgutor m, ysgutores f

Further reading

• executor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /e.ze.kuˈtoʁ/ [e.ze.kuˈtoh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /e.ze.kuˈtoʁ/ [e.ze.kuˈtoh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /e.ze.kuˈtoɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /e.ze.kuˈtoʁ/ [e.ze.kuˈtoχ]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /e.ze.kuˈtoɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /i.zɨ.kuˈtoɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /i.zɨ.kuˈtoɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /i.zɨ.kuˈto.ɾi/

Noun

executor m (plural executores)

1. executor

Further reading

• “executor”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “executor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin execūtorlbor.

French exécuteurbor.

Romanian executor

Borrowed from French exécuteur, a learned borrowing from Latin execūtor.

Adjective

executor m or n (feminine singular executoare, masculine plural executori, feminine/neuter plural executoare)

1. executory

Declension

Declension of executor

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	executor		executoare	executori	executoare
	definite	executorul		executoarea	executorii	executoarele
genitive- dative	indefinite	executor		executoare	executori	executoare
	definite	executorului		executoarei	executorilor	executoarelor