From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
[en] [en], from [en], from [la], from [la].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Adjective
[en-adj]
1. Passed on as an inheritance , by last will or intestate.
2. Of a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.
3. Of a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank.
4. Of a disease or trait: passed from a parent to offspring in the gene s.
5. * [en]
6. [en] Of a ring : such that all submodule s of projective module s over the ring are also projective.
**** Synonyms
- [en]
**** Antonyms
- [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy |hereditarian |hereditarily
|hereditariness |hereditary disease |hereditary elliptocytosis |hereditary
hemorrhagic telangiectasia |hereditary mechanics |hereditary peer
|nonhereditary |semihereditary|Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy
|unhereditary }}
**** Related terms
- see [en]
**** Translations
[which is passed on as inheritance]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Ido: [io]
- Italian: [it]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sicilian: [scn]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[of a title, honor or right: granted to somebody's descendant after that
person's death]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Italian: [it]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sicilian: [scn] , [scn]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[of a person: holding a hereditary title or rank]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Italian: [it]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[of a disease or trait: passed in the genes]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Mongolian:
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- French: [fr]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
[trans-bottom]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords .
*** See also
- [en]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
** Middle English
*** Adjective
[enm]
1. [enm]