inherit
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English enheriten, from Old French enheriter, from Late Latin inhereditare (“make heir”). Displaced native Old English ierfan.
Inflected forms:
form: inherits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: inheriting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: inherited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: inherited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To receive (property, a title, etc.), by legal succession or bequest after the previous owner's death.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: After Grandad died, I inherited the house.
‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’
gloss: To receive (property, a title, etc.), by legal succession or bequest after the previous owner's death.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Lucky old Daniel – his grandfather died rich, and he's inherited.
gloss: To take possession of as a right (especially in Biblical translations).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Your descendants will inherit the earth.
gloss: To receive a characteristic from one's ancestors by genetic transmission.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Let's hope the baby inherits his mother's looks and his father's intelligence.
gloss: To derive from people or conditions previously in force.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This country has inherited an invidious class culture.
gloss: To derive (existing functionality) from a superclass.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: ModalWindow inherits all the properties and methods of Window.
gloss: To derive a new class from (a superclass).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: For example, the following two code segments, from different assemblies, show how easy it is to inherit a class from another assembly.
gloss: To put in possession of.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: This, or else nothing, will inherit her
Derived words: classical inheritance
coinherit
co-inherit
coinheritance
coinheritor
composition over inheritance
disinherit
disinheritance
disinheriting
disinheritor
inheritability
inheritable
inheritableness
inheritably
inheritance
inheritance powder
inheritance tax
inheritee
inheriter
inheriting
inheritor
inheritour
inheritress
inheritrix
misinherit
multiple inheritance
noninheritable
noninheritance
noninherited
noninheriting
uninheritable
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: وَرَثَ
roman: waraṯa
lang: Armenian
word: ժառանգել
roman: žaṙangel
lang: Asturian
word: heredar
lang: Bulgarian
word: наследявам
roman: nasledjavam
lang: Catalan
word: heretar
lang: Chinese
word: 繼承 /继承
roman: jìchéng
lang: Chinese
word: 继承
roman: jìchéng
lang: Czech
word: zdědit
lang: Czech
word: dědit
lang: Czech
word: podědit
lang: Dutch
word: erven
lang: Egyptian
word: E9:a-F44
roman: jwꜥ
lang: Esperanto
word: heredi
lang: Finnish
word: periä
lang: French
word: hériter
lang: Galician
word: herdar
lang: German
word: erben
lang: East Central German
word: aarm
lang: Greek
word: κληρονομώ
roman: klironomó
lang: Ancient Greek
word: κληρονομέω
roman: klēronoméō
lang: Hebrew
word: יָרַשׁ
roman: yarásh
lang: Hungarian
word: örököl
lang: Icelandic
word: erfa
lang: Irish
word: faigh le hoidhreacht
lang: Italian
word: ereditare
lang: Japanese
word: 受継ぐ
roman: uketsugu
lang: Latin
word: heredito
lang: Malay
word: mewarisi
lang: Norwegian
word: arve
lang: Occitan
word: eiretar
lang: Old English
word: ierfan
lang: Oromo
word: dhaaluu
lang: Polish
word: dziedziczyć
lang: Polish
word: odziedziczyć
lang: Portuguese
word: herdar
lang: Romanian
word: moșteni
lang: Russian
word: насле́довать
roman: naslédovatʹ
lang: Russian
word: унасле́довать
roman: unaslédovatʹ
lang: Slovak
word: zdediť
lang: Slovak
word: dediť
lang: Slovene
word: podedovati
lang: Slovene
word: dedovati
lang: Spanish
word: heredar
lang: Swahili
word: -rithi
lang: Swedish
word: ärva
lang: Ukrainian
word: успадко́вувати
roman: uspadkóvuvaty
lang: Ukrainian
word: успадкува́ти
roman: uspadkuváty
lang: Vietnamese
word: thừa kế
lang: Volapük
word: gerön
lang: Walloon
word: eriter
lang: Welsh
word: etifeddu