# heres
## English
### Noun

heres
* plural of here

### Anagrams

* Herse, HREEs, Esher, sheer, heers, herse, Sheer, Rhees, Shere

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* haerēs

### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁ro- (“derelict”), from the root *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave behind, abandon”). Cognate with Ancient Greek χήρα (khḗra, “widow”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “-ēd-?”)

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈheː.reːs/, [ˈheːreːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈe.res/, [ˈɛːres]

### Noun

hērēs m or f (genitive hērēdis); third declension
* heir, heiress
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.272–276:“Sī tē nūlla movet tantārum glōria rērum – [nec super ipse tuā mōlīris laude labōrem] – Ascanium surgentem et spēs hērēdis Iūlī respice, cui rēgnum Ītaliae Rōmānaque tellūs dēbentur.” [...]“If the glories of such deeds do not inspire you – [and moreover, neither are you yourself endeavoring an effort with merit] – consider Ascanius, [now] coming of age, and the hope of [your] heir Iulus, to whom is due the rule of Italy and the land of Rome.” (Mercury arrives to confront Aeneas, now lingering in Carthage, and foreshadows the family destiny. The god speaks two different names for Aeneas’s only son: Ascanius, and Iulus, whom Julius Caesar and Caesar Augustus claimed as a royal ancestor. Note: Line 273 nearly duplicates line 234 and may be a corruption of the original text.)

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* cohēres
* exhērēdō
* hērēditārius
* hērēditās
* hērēditō
* hērēdium
* subhēres

#### Descendants

* Eastern Romance
** Romanian: erede, herede
* Gallo-Italic
** Piedmontese: erede
* Italo-Dalmatian
** Italian: reda, erede
** Sicilian: redi, eredi
* Old Occitan:
** Catalan: hereu
* Old French: eir
** Anglo-Norman: heir, aire
*** → Middle English: heir
**** English: heir
**** Scots: heir
**** → Welsh: aer
** French: hoir (obsolete)
** → Middle Irish: eigre
*** Irish: oidhre
*** Manx: eirey
*** Scottish Gaelic: oighre
* Rhaeto-Romance
** Friulian: erêt, erêd
** Romansch: ierta
* West Iberian
** Aragonese: hereu
** Galician: heree (archaic)

### 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* heres in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (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, →ISBN

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From here +‎ -es. Compare þeires.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhɛris/, /ˈhɛːris/

#### Pronoun

heres (nominative he)
* Third-person plural possessive pronoun: theirs, of them
    Synonym: heren

##### Alternative forms

* hers, heyres, herres, heores, heoræs, hires, hirs, hores, hares, hures

##### Descendants

* English: hers (obsolete)

#### References

* “hē̆res, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

heres (uncountable)
* Alternative form of hereos (“love-sickness”)

### Etymology 3
#### Pronoun

heres
* Alternative form of hires (“hers”)

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

heres
* plural of here (“haircloth”)

### Etymology 5
#### Verb

heres
* Alternative form of herest: second-person singular present of heren