hereditas
Latin
Etymology
From hērēs (“heir”) + -tās.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /heːˈreː.di.taːs/, [heːˈreːd̪ɪt̪äːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /eˈre.di.tas/, [eˈrɛːd̪it̪äs]
Noun
hērēditās f (genitive hērēditātis); third declension
- inheritance
- hereditary succession
- hereditary legacy
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | hērēditās | hērēditātēs |
| Genitive | hērēditātis | hērēditātum |
| Dative | hērēditātī | hērēditātibus |
| Accusative | hērēditātem | hērēditātēs |
| Ablative | hērēditāte | hērēditātibus |
| Vocative | hērēditās | hērēditātēs |
Descendants
- English: heredity
- French: hérédité
- Friulian: ereditât
- Galician: herdade
- Italian: eredità
- Occitan: ereditat
- Piedmontese: eredità
- Portuguese: herdade
- Romanian: ereditate
- Spanish: heredad
See also
hereditas on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- “hereditas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “hereditas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- hereditas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to inherit something: hereditate aliquid accipere
- something has been left as a legacy by some one: hereditate aliquid relictum est ab aliquo
- I have received a legacy from a person: hereditas ad me or mihi venit ab aliquo (Verr. 2. 1. 10)
- to take possession of an inheritance: hereditatem adire, cernere
- to inherit something: hereditate aliquid accipere
- “hereditas”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “hereditas”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin