hereditas
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /heːˈreː.di.taːs/, [heːˈreːd̪ɪt̪äːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /eˈre.di.tas/, [eˈrɛːd̪it̪äs]
Noun
hērēditās f (genitive hērēditātis); third declension
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
- Galician: herdade
- Italian: eredità
- Portuguese: herdade
- Romanian: ereditate
- Spanish: heredad
See also
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
- 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