coheres

Forms

cohērēs m or f (genitive cohērēdis); third declension^[1] Also spelled cohaeres.^[2] Inscriptions have coeres.^[3]

Etymology

It is from Latin con- + hērēs (“heir”).^[4][1][3][5]

Earliest recorded meaning

Köbler dates it from the Rhetorica ad Herennium.^[5] Cicero uses it in the speeches against Verres and in his letters.^[2]

Semantic evolution

It is one who is heir together with another or others, a joint heir, masculine or feminine.^[4][2] Horace has the genitive plural cohērēdum and the phrase to be co-heir with someone, and Petronius uses it too.^[2] The feminine is in the Digest.^[2] In Medieval Latin the plural cohērēdēs are co-partners in an undivided inheritance, and those who share rights in a common wood.^[6]

Timeline

• 86/82 BC – The Rhetorica ad Herennium.^[5]
• 81–43 BC – Cicero.^[2]
• 65–8 BC – Horace.^[2]

Meanings

Noun

1. A joint heir, coheir, coheiress.^[4][2][1]
2. (Medieval Latin, plural) Co-partners in an undivided inheritance; sharers in a common wood.^[6]

Related words

• hērēs

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
3. ^ a b Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
4. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
5. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
6. ^ a b Niermeyer, J. F. (1976), Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden: Brill