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English
Noun
heres
Anagrams
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁ro- (“derelict”), from the root *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave behind, abandon”). Cognate with Ancient Greek χήρα (khḗra, “widow”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “-ēd-?”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈheː.reːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɛː.res]
Noun
hērēs m or f (genitive hērēdis); third declension
- heir, heiress
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.272–276:
- “Sī tē nūlla movet tantārum glōria rērum –
[nec super ipse tuā mōlīris laude labōrem] –
Ascanium surgentem et spēs hērēdis Iūlī
respice, cui rēgnum Ītaliae Rōmānaque tellūs
dēbentur.” [...]- “If the glories of such deeds do not inspire you – [and moreover, neither are you yourself endeavoring an effort with merit] – consider Ascanius, [now] coming of age, and the hope of [your] heir Iulus, to whom is due the rule of Italy and the land of Rome.”
(Mercury arrives to confront Aeneas, now lingering in Carthage, and foreshadows the family destiny. The god speaks two different names for Aeneas’s only son: Ascanius, and Iulus, whom Julius Caesar and Caesar Augustus claimed as a royal ancestor. Note: Line 273 nearly duplicates line 234 and may be a corruption of the original text.)
- “If the glories of such deeds do not inspire you – [and moreover, neither are you yourself endeavoring an effort with merit] – consider Ascanius, [now] coming of age, and the hope of [your] heir Iulus, to whom is due the rule of Italy and the land of Rome.”
- “Sī tē nūlla movet tantārum glōria rērum –
- :
- "Hoc Monumentum Hērēdem Nōn Sequitur"
- "This tombstone does not follow the heir." (An inscription sometimes found on Ancient Roman tombstones, seemingly to stop a tombstone’s being sold off for money by the dead Roman’s heirs.)
- "Hoc Monumentum Hērēdem Nōn Sequitur"
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “heres”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “heres”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "heres", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “heres”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to appoint some one as heir in one's will: aliquem heredem testamento scribere, facere
- to be some one's heir: heredem esse alicui
- sole heir; heir to three-quarters of the estate: heres ex asse, ex dodrante
- heir to two-thirds of the property: heres ex besse
- to appoint some one as heir in one's will: aliquem heredem testamento scribere, facere
- “heres”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “heres”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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Middle English
Etymology 1
From here + -es. Compare þeires.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
heres (nominative he)
Alternative forms
Descendants
- English: hers (obsolete)
See also
1 Used preconsonantally or before h.
2 Early or dialectal.
3 Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third person dual forms in Middle English.
4 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd person singular.
2 Early or dialectal.
3 Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third person dual forms in Middle English.
4 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd person singular.
References
- “hē̆res, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
Noun
heres
- alternative form of hereos (“love-sickness”)
Etymology 3
Pronoun
heres
- alternative form of hires (“hers”)
Etymology 4
Alternative forms
Noun
heres
Etymology 5
Alternative forms
Noun
heres
Etymology 6
Verb
heres
- alternative form of herest: second-person singular present of heren
Old English
Pronunciation
Noun
hēres
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