hereditas

From hērēs (“heir”) +‎ -tās.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /heːˈreː.di.taːs/, [heːˈreːd̪ɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈre.di.tas/, [eˈrɛːd̪it̪äs]

hērēditās f (genitive hērēditātis); third declension

1. inheritance
2. hereditary succession
3. hereditary legacy

Third-declension noun.

• hereditas on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• “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, 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