coheres
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Pronunciation
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
Meanings
Noun
- A joint heir, coheir, coheiress.[4][2][1]
- (Medieval Latin, plural) Co-partners in an undivided inheritance; sharers in a common wood.[6]
Related words
References
- ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
- ^ a b c d e f g h Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ^ a b Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
- ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
- ^ a b Niermeyer, J. F. (1976), Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden: Brill