intestate Copy link • intestate: intestātus: to die i., int. mori, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 22, 53: Traj. in Plin. Ep. Also in adv. form, intestato (mori), Cic. de Or. 1, 39, 177; ab intestato (heredem esse), Ulp. Dig. 37, 7, 1, § 8.