heredity

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hɪˈɹɛdɪti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /həˈɹɛdəti/

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛrəɖɪʈi/

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.

   laws of heredity

   genetics and heredity

   influence of heredity

   Eye color is often determined by heredity.

Related terms

• hereditary

Translations

hereditary transmission

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

  Mandarin: 遺傳 / 遗传 (zh) (yíchuán)

• Czech: dědičnost f
• Dutch: erfelijkheid (nl) f
• Finnish: perinnöllisyys (fi)
• French: hérédité (fr) f
• Greek: κληρονομικότητα (el) f (klironomikótita)
• Hungarian: örökletesség
• Irish: oidhreacht f, dúchas m
• 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)
• Spanish: herencia (es) f, heredad (es) f (dated)
• Swedish: ärftlighet (sv)
• Tagalog: kamanahan
• Thai: กรรมพันธุ์ (th)

See also

• pangenesis

Anagrams

• third eye