heres

See also: hères and here's

English

Noun

heres

1. plural of here

Anagrams

• Esher, Herse, Rhees, Sheer, Shere, heers, herse, sheer

Latin

Alternative forms

• haerēs

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁ro- (“derelict”), from the root *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave behind, abandon”). Cognate with Ancient Greek χήρα (khḗra, “widow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈheː.reːs/, [ˈheːreːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.res/, [ˈɛːres]

Noun

hērēs m or f (genitive hērēdis); third declension

1. heir, heiress

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	hērēs	hērēdēs
Genitive	hērēdis	hērēdum
Dative	hērēdī	hērēdibus
Accusative	hērēdem	hērēdēs
Ablative	hērēde	hērēdibus
Vocative	hērēs	hērēdēs

Derived terms

• cohēres
• exhērēdō
• hērēditārius
• hērēditās
• hērēditō
• hērēdium
• subhēres

Descendants

• Eastern Romance
  • Romanian: erede, herede
• Gallo-Italic
  • Piedmontese: erede
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Italian: erede
  • Sicilian: redi, eredi
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: hereu
• Old French: eir
  • Anglo-Norman: heir, aire
    • → Middle English: heir
      • English: heir
      • Scots: heir
      • → Welsh: aer
  • French: hoir (obsolete)
  • → Middle Irish: eigre
    • Irish: oidhre
    • Manx: eirey
    • Scottish Gaelic: oighre
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: erêt, erêd
  • Romansch: ierta
• West Iberian
  • Aragonese: hereu
  • Galician: heree (archaic)

References

• “heres”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “heres”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• heres in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• heres in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to appoint some one as heir in one's will: aliquem heredem testamento scribere, facere
    
  • to be some one's heir: heredem esse alicui
    
  • sole heir; heir to three-quarters of the estate: heres ex asse, ex dodrante
    
  • heir to two-thirds of the property: heres ex besse
    
• “heres”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “heres”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎^[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Middle English

Etymology 1

From here +‎ -es. Compare þeires.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛris/, /ˈhɛːris/

Pronoun

heres (nominative he)

1. Third-person plural possessive pronoun: theirs, of them

   Synonym: heren

Alternative forms

• hers, heyres, herres, heores, heoræs, hires, hirs, hores, hares, hures

Descendants

• English: hers (obsolete)

See also

Middle English personal pronouns

			nominative	accusative	dative	genitive	possessive
singular	1st-person		I, ich, ik	me		min mi1	min
	2nd-person		þou	þe		þin þi1	þin
	3rd-person	m	he	him hine2	him	his	his hisen
		f	sche, heo	hire heo	hire		hire hires, hiren
		n	hit		hit him2	his, hit	—
dual3	1st-person		wit	unk		unker
	2nd-person		ȝit	inc		inker
plural	1st-person		we	us, ous		oure	oure oures, ouren
	2nd-person4		ye	yow		your	your youres, youren
	3rd-person	inh.	he	hem he2	hem	here	here heres, heren
		bor.	þei	þem, þeim		þeir	þeir þeires, þeiren

¹Used preconsonantally or before h.
²Early or dialectal.
³Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third-person dual forms in Middle English.
⁴Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

References

• “hē̆res, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Noun

heres (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of hereos (“love-sickness”)

Etymology 3

Pronoun

heres

1. Alternative form of hires (“hers”)

Etymology 4

Noun

heres

1. plural of here (“haircloth”)

Etymology 5

Verb

heres

1. Alternative form of herest: second-person singular present of heren