English → Latin
“inheritance” in Latin
hērēditāsinheritance; hereditary succession; hereditary legacycapiōto take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm; to take on, adopt; to hold, to contain
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
inheritance
hereditas (the right of heirship, and the sum of the things belonging to the inheritance): Inheritance by will, hereditas ex testamento; without a wil, hereditas ab intestato (this is called legitima, the lawful, necessary; the former testamentaria; all in the Jurisconsults): an inheritance not yet entered upon, hereditas jacens: a common inheritance, hereditas communis: a joint inheritance, communis herediras, quae ad utrumque aequaliter lege veniebat. To fix one’s heart upon an inheritance, oculos hereditati adjicere; hereditatem persequi: to receive an inheritance, hereditatem consequi or capere: I receive an inheritance, hereditas mihi venit, obvenit; hereditas ad me venit or pervenit: to receive a rich inheritance, adipisci effertissimam hereditatem (Plaut., Capt., 4, 1, 8); magna ac luculenta hereditas alicui obtingit: something comes to me by inheritance, hereditate mihi aliquid venit or obvenit: to have part in an inheritance, habere partem in hereditate; vocari in partem hereditatis: to take possession of an inheritance, hereditatem adire, cernere, adire cernereque; cretionem capere (Plin., 2, 26, 24; figuratively): to decline, refuse an inheritance, se abstinere hereditate; hereditatem omittere, repudiare (Jurisconsulti): to claim and take possession of an inheritance, hereditati se miscere or se immiscere (ib.): to obtain, or to endeavor to obtain, an inheritance surreptitiously, testamentum captare: to exclude anybody from an inheritance, aliquem excludere hereditate.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for inheritance?
- The usual Latin words for “inheritance” are hērēditās, capiō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.