Just want to make sure I have the right terminology. The person who makes a will and testament is a testator. The executor (also known as an administrator) has the responsibility to carry out the desires of the testator, that is, ensure that the testator's property is distributed according to the details in the will.

It's also true that, from what I've seen, the testator executes his/her will when signing it in the presence of a required number of witnesses, who confirm the identity of the testator, or in the case of a holographic will the will is executed simply by handwriting the will and signing it (without anyone witnessing it).

I just want to make sure that the executing of a will when a testator signs it is a completely different thing from the executing of a will by a chosen executor. I assume that the testator executing his/her will (at the time of signing it) does not in any way become "executor" and nor should they be conflated with the "executor of the will".

If this is the case, then I assume it's just a matter of coincidence that the words used are the same. By that I mean that in English we'd say that someone who executes is either an "executer", "executor", or "executioner", but despite that when a testator executes a will they in no way become an executor of the will in legal sense, right?