inherit

Meaning

Verb

• To take possession of as a right (especially in Biblical translations).
• To receive , by legal succession or bequest after the previous owner's death.
• To receive a characteristic from one's ancestors by genetic transmission.
• To derive from people or conditions previously in force.
• To come into an inheritance.
• To derive (existing functionality) from a superclass.
• To derive a new class from (a superclass).
• To put in possession of.

Origin

• From Middle English enheriten, from Old French enheriter, from Late Latin inhereditare ("make heir"). Displaced native , compare related noun erf, from , from Proto-Germanic *arbiją.