English

Noun

heres

1. plural of here

Latin

Alternative forms

• haerēs

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁ro- ‎(“derelict”). Cognate with Ancient Greek χήρα ‎(khḗra, “widow”)

Noun

hērēs c ‎(genitive hērēdis); third declension

1. heir, heiress

Inflection

Third declension.

Derived terms

• hērēditas
• hērēdium

Descendants

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “heres”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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), Leiden, Boston: Brill