INHERIT: значение слова

verb see: heredity
Date: 14th century
transitive verb to come into possession of or receive especially as a right or divine portion ,

2. to receive from an ancestor as a right or title descendible by law at the ancestor's death, to receive as a devise or legacy, to receive from a parent or ancestor by genetic transmission , to have in turn or receive as if from an ancestor , intransitive verb to take or hold a possession or rights by inheritance, inheritor noun inheritress or inheritrix noun