Hereditary

Adjective

 * 1) which is passed on as inheritance, by last will or intestate
 * 2) (of a title, honor or right) legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.
 * Duke is a hereditary title which was created in Norman times.
 * 1) (of a person) holding a legally hereditary title or rank
 * hereditary rulers
 * 1) (of a disease or trait) passed from a parent to offspring in the genes
 * ''Haemophilia is hereditary in his family.

Derived terms

 * hereditariness
 * hereditarily
 * hereditary disease
 * hereditary peer

Related terms

 * heredity
 * heritage
 * inherit, inheritance
 * heir, heiress

Noun

 * 1) A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.

Adverbs for Hereditary
supposedly; probably; definitely; questionably; sadly; unfortunately; allegedly; highly; occasionally; decidedly; basically; intrinsically; invariably; naturally; ineradicably; lamentably; possibly; undoubtedly.

Thesaurus
ancestral, atavistic, bequeathed, bodily, born, coeval, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, genetic, genic, handed down, heritable, in the blood, inborn, inbred, incarnate, indigenous, inheritable, inherited, innate, instinctive, instinctual, matroclinous, native, native to, natural, natural to, organic, patrimonial, patroclinous, physical, plasmatic, plasmic, primal, protoplasmic, temperamental, traditional, transferable, transmissible, willed

Etymology
From hereditarius, from hereditas 'inheritance', from heres 'heir'

Adjective

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 * Macedonian:
 * Polish: dziedziczny
 * Romanian: ereditar
 * Swedish: ärftlig


 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: erfelijk, erf-
 * Finnish:


 * German: Erb-
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish: dziedziczny
 * Romanian: ereditar


 * Croatian:
 * Dutch: erfelijk, erf-
 * Finnish:
 * German: Erb-


 * Italian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish: dziedziczny
 * Romanian: ereditar


 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Italian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish: dziedziczny
 * Romanian: ereditar
 * Swedish: ärftlig


 * : hereda


 * : ereditar, moştenit
 * : hereditario, hereditaria