heritor
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A proprietor or landholder in a parish.
Example Sentences
- "How comes it then that from such high estate We have thus fallen, save that Luxury With barren merchandise piles up the gate Where nobler thoughts and deeds should enter by: Else might we still be Milton's heritors."
- "Morris, our sweet and simple Chaucer's child, Dear heritor of Spenser's tuneful reed, With soft and sylvan pipe has oft beguiled The weary soul of man in troublous need, And from the far and flowerless fields of ice Has brought fair flowers meet to make an earthly paradise."
- "The printed statement reads (abridged in parts):— "To the Interested HERITORS in the Counties of Mid-Lothian, Roxburgh, Selkirk, and Berwick. […]"
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: heriter, heritier, hērēditārium