Translation
to inherit
Word origin
From Latin heres, genitive heredis, an heir, and the verb hereditare built on it. English took the same family through French as heir, heritage and inherit, and kept the Latin adjective whole in hereditary.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- heres
- English cognates
- heir, heritage, inherit, hereditary
Examples
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She inherited the house from her grandfather.
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He inherited the farm, but not the money.
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My children will inherit everything that I own.
The person you inherit from takes : . The thing inherited is the direct object, so both appear in one sentence without a preposition fight. The family around the root is worth having: heredo is the inheritance itself, heredanto the heir, and i is to leave something to somebody, the causative that English handles with a different verb entirely. It also carries the biological sense, so eye colour is too.
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