contester

From contest + -er.

contester (plural contesters)

1. One who contests something.
   • 2000, Robert S. Menchin, Where There's a Will:

     Meanwhile, Millar's second cousins and even more remote relatives hired lawyers to litigate the will out of existence. Contesters of the will claimed that the clause “encouraged immorality” and was “against public policy” […]

• Cornettes, recontest

Learned borrowing from Latin contestārī.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.tɛs.te/

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contester

1. to contest; to challenge; to dispute

• contestation

• “contester”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• corsètent, escortent

contester

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of contestor

From Latin contestor, contestārī (“call to witness”).

contester

1. (Jersey) to contest

First attested 1338, Latin contestor.

contester

1. to contest; to dispute
2. to attest

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-sts, *-stt are modified to z, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• English: contest
• French: contester
• Norman: contester

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “contester”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.
• Etymology and history of “contester”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012