heredity

English

Etymology

From Middle French heredité, from Latin hērēditas (“condition of being an heir”), from hēres (“heir”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɪˈɹɛdɪti/
• IPA^(key): /həˈɹɛɾəɾi/

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Noun

heredity (usually uncountable, plural heredities)

1. Hereditary transmission of the physical and genetic qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants.

Related terms

• hereditary

Translations

hereditary transmission

• Azerbaijani: irsiyyət
• Bulgarian: унаследяване n (unasledjavane), наследственост (bg) f (nasledstvenost)
• Catalan: herència (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 遺傳／遗传 (zh) (yíchuán), 遗传 (zh) (yíchuán)

• Czech: dědičnost f
• Finnish: perinnöllisyys (fi)
• Greek: κληρονομικότητα (el) f (klironomikótita)
• Hungarian: örökletesség
• Irish: oidhreacht f, dúchas m
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• Italian: eredità (it)
• Japanese: 遺伝 (ja) (いでん, iden)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: bomaweyî (ku) n

• Polish: dziedziczność (pl) f
• Romanian: ereditate (ro) f
• Russian: насле́дственность (ru) f (naslédstvennostʹ)
• Slovak: dedičnosť (sk)
• Swedish: ärftlighet (sv)
• Tagalog: kamanahan

See also

• pangenesis

Anagrams

• third eye