executor

• executour (obsolete)

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

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

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

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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

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.

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

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executor m (plural executores)

1. executor

• “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

Borrowed from French exécuteur, from Latin executor.

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

1. executory