heres
See also: hères and here's
English
Noun
heres
- plural of here
Anagrams
- Esher, Herse, Rhees, Sheer, Shere, heers, herse, sheer
Latin
Alternative forms
- haerēs
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁ro- (“derelict”), from the root *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave behind, abandon”). Cognate with Ancient Greek χήρα (khḗra, “widow”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈheː.reːs/, [ˈheːreːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈe.res/, [ˈɛːres]
Noun
hērēs m or f (genitive hērēdis); third declension
- heir, heiress
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | hērēs | hērēdēs |
| Genitive | hērēdis | hērēdum |
| Dative | hērēdī | hērēdibus |
| Accusative | hērēdem | hērēdēs |
| Ablative | hērēde | hērēdibus |
| Vocative | hērēs | hērēdēs |
Derived terms
- cohēres
- exhērēdō
- hērēditārius
- hērēditās
- hērēditō
- hērēdium
- subhēres
Descendants
- Eastern Romance
- Romanian: erede, herede
- Gallo-Italic
- Piedmontese: erede
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Italian: erede
- Sicilian: redi, eredi
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: hereu
- Old French: eir
- Anglo-Norman: heir, aire
- → Middle English: heir
- English: heir
- Scots: heir
- → Welsh: aer
- → Middle English: heir
- French: hoir (obsolete)
- → Middle Irish: eigre
- Irish: oidhre
- Manx: eirey
- Scottish Gaelic: oighre
- Anglo-Norman: heir, aire
- Rhaeto-Romance
- Friulian: erêt, erêd
- Romansch: ierta
- West Iberian
- Aragonese: hereu
- Galician: heree (archaic)
References
- “heres”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “heres”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- heres in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- heres in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to appoint some one as heir in one's will: aliquem heredem testamento scribere, facere
- to be some one's heir: heredem esse alicui
- sole heir; heir to three-quarters of the estate: heres ex asse, ex dodrante
- heir to two-thirds of the property: heres ex besse
- to appoint some one as heir in one's will: aliquem heredem testamento scribere, facere
- “heres”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “heres”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Middle English
Etymology 1
From here + -es. Compare þeires.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhɛris/, /ˈhɛːris/
Pronoun
heres (nominative he)
- Third-person plural genitive pronoun: theirs
- Synonym: heren
Alternative forms
- hers, heyres, herres, heores, heoræs, hires, hirs, hores, hares, hures
Descendants
- English: hers (obsolete)
See also
Middle English personal pronouns
| nominative | accusative | dative | genitive | possessive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | 1st-person | I, ich, ik | me | min mi1 | min | ||
| 2nd-person | þou | þe | þin þi1 | þin | |||
| 3rd-person | m | he | him hine2 | him | his | his hisen | |
| f | sche, heo | hire heo | hire | hire hires, hiren | |||
| n | hit | hit him2 | his, hit | — | |||
| dual3 | 1st-person | wit | unk | unker | |||
| 2nd-person | ȝit | inc | inker | ||||
| plural | 1st-person | we | us, ous | oure | oure oures, ouren | ||
| 2nd-person4 | ye | yow | your | your youres, youren | |||
| 3rd-person | inh. | he | hem he2 | hem | here | here heres, heren | |
| bor. | þei | þem, þeim | þeir | þeir þeires, þeiren | |||
1Used preconsonantally or before h.
2Early or dialectal.
3Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third-person dual forms in Middle English.
4Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
References
- “hē̆res, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Noun
heres (uncountable)
- Alternative form of hereos (“love-sickness”)
Pronoun
heres
- Alternative form of hires (“hers”)
Noun
heres
- plural of here (“haircloth”)
Verb
heres
- Alternative form of herest: second-person singular present of heren