heirship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.

parcenary

"Joint heirship; = coparcenary", Late Middle English; earliest use found in Domesday Ipswich. From Anglo-Norman parcenerie, parcenarie and Old French parsonerie, parsenerie, Old French, Middle French parçonerie (1200; compare French regional (Normandy) personnerie, (Jersey) parchonnerie association) from parçon + -erie, after parçonier; compare -ery, -ary.