Latin

Noun

hērēditas f ‎(genitive hērēditātis); third declension

1. inheritance
2. hereditary succession
3. hereditary legacy

Inflection

Third declension.

Derived terms

• hērēditārius
• hērēditō

See also

• Hereditas on Wikipedia

Descendants

• French: hérédité
• Portuguese: herdade
• Spanish: heredad

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “hereditas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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