heredity的词源

英文词源

heredity (n.)

1530s, from Middle French hérédité (12c.), from Latin hereditatem (nominative hereditas) "heirship, inheritance, condition of being an heir," from heres (genitive heredis) "heir, heiress," from PIE root *ghe- "to be empty, left behind" (source also of Greek khera "widow"). Legal sense of "inheritable quality or character" first recorded 1784; the modern biological sense seems to be found first in 1863, introduced by Herbert Spencer.

中文词源

heredity：遗产

来自拉丁语heres,继承，词源同heir,heiress,来自PIE*ghe,留下，遗留。

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：heredity 词源，heredity 含义。

heredity：遗传；遗传性 

词根词缀： -heredit-继承,遗传 + -y名词词尾