heritor

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who inherits; an heir or heiress.
  2. A proprietor or landholder in a parish.
    — The printed statement reads (abridged in parts):— "To the Interested HERITORS in the Counties of Mid-Lothian, Roxburgh, Selkirk, and Berwick. […]

词形变化

heritors plural heretor alternative heritour alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
coheritor
并列词
heritress heritrix

词源

From Middle English heriter, from Anglo-Norman heriter, Old French heritier, earlier eretier, eritier, from Late Latin hērēditārium (from the adjective hērēditārius (“hereditary”)), which took the place of hērēs (“heir”). In the 16th century conformed to agent nouns in -our, -or. By surface analysis, herit + -or.
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