herança

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• herdança (dialectal)
• erança (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese erança, from Latin haerentia, from haerēns.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /eˈɾɐ̃.sɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /eˈɾɐ̃.sɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /eˈɾɐ̃.sa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /eˈɾɐ̃.sɐ/, /iˈɾɐ̃.sɐ/

• Hyphenation: he‧ran‧ça

Noun

herança f (plural heranças)

1. heritage, inheritance, legacy

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:herança.

Further reading

• “herança”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “herança”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026