hereditas

Latin

Etymology

From hērēs (“heir”) +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /heːˈreː.di.taːs/, [heːˈreːd̪ɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈre.di.tas/, [eˈrɛːd̪it̪äs]

Noun

hērēditās f (genitive hērēditātis); third declension

1. inheritance
2. hereditary succession
3. 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^[1], 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
    
• “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