## Meanings
1. Money or property received from someone who has died.
2. A quality, tradition, or thing passed down from earlier generations.
3. The passing of physical traits from parents to their offspring.

## Examples
- She used her inheritance to buy a small house.
- A love of music was her inheritance from her parents.
- Eye colour is determined by genetic inheritance.

## Derived Forms
- coinheritance
- disinheritance
- misinheritance
- noninheritance
- preheritance

## Related Forms
- inherit
- inheritable
- inheritor
- inheritress
- inheritrix

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: enheritaunce

## Etymology
Inherited from Middle English enheritaunce, inheritaunce, borrowed from Anglo-Norman, Old French enheritaunce, from enheriter. By surface analysis, inherit + -ance.

## AI Etymology
Inheritance is inherited from Middle English enheritaunce, inheritaunce, borrowed from Anglo-Norman, Old French enheritaunce, from enheriter. By surface analysis, inherit + -ance. The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern nominal form is built from the named base and affix. In present-day use, it can mean money or property received from someone who has died, or a quality, tradition, or thing passed down from earlier generations. Related forms include inherit, inheritable, inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix. Derived formations include coinheritance, disinheritance, misinheritance, noninheritance, preheritance.

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