“Witnesses”
Say we have some arity-1 predicate ψ which is an existential; ie, of the form
ψ(a)⟺(∃m)(β(m,a))
for some β. Then for any particular a0, we have that ψ(a0) exactly when exists some m0 so that β(m0,a0). In this situation we may call m0 a witness to ψ(a) holding.