heritor
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 7
Definition of heritor
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- A person who inherits; an heir or heiress.
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noun
- A person who inherits; an heir or heiress.
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A proprietor or landholder in a parish.
“The printed statement reads (abridged in parts):— "To the Interested HERITORS in the Counties of Mid-Lothian, Roxburgh, Selkirk, and Berwick. […]”
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Etymology
From Middle English heriter, from Anglo-Norman heriter, Old French heritier, earlier eretier, eritier, from Late Latin hērēditārium (from the adjective hērēditārius (“hereditary”)), which took the place of hērēs (“heir”). In the 16th century conformed to agent nouns in -our, -or. By surface analysis, herit + -or.
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