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hereditary
English
Etymology
From Latin hereditarius, from hereditas 'inheritance', from heres 'heir'
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /h????d?t(?)?i/
- (General American) IPA(key): /h????d??t??i/
- Hyphenation: he?red?i?ta?ry
Adjective
hereditary (comparative more hereditary, superlative most hereditary)
- Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.
- Of a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.
- Duke is a hereditary title which was created in Norman times.
- Of a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank.
- hereditary rulers
- Of a disease or trait: passed from a parent to offspring in the genes
- Haemophilia is hereditary in his family.
- (mathematics) Of a ring: such that all submodules of projective modules over the ring are also projective.
Synonyms
- inhereditary
Antonyms
- nonhereditary
Derived terms
Related terms
- see heir
Translations
Noun
hereditary (plural hereditaries)
- A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.
See also
- congenital
Anagrams
- erythraeid
hereditary From the web:
- what hereditary means
- what hereditary diseases
- does hereditary mean genetic
- what conditions are hereditary
- what is considered hereditary
- is hereditary the same as genetic
endemic
English
Alternative forms
- endemick (obsolete)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?? (en, “in”) + ????? (dêmos, “people”). Possibly via ??????? (énd?mos, “among one's people, at home, native”) and/or French endémique.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /?n?d?m.?k/
- Rhymes: -?m?k
Adjective
endemic (not comparable)
- Native to a particular area or culture; originating where it occurs.
- The endemic religion of Easter Island arrived with the Polynesian settlers.
- (especially of plants and animals) Peculiar to a particular area or region; not found in other places.
- Kangaroos are endemic to Australia.
- (especially of diseases) Prevalent in a particular area or region.
- Malaria is endemic to the tropics.
- 1998, Gillian Catriona Ramchand, Deconstructing the Lexicon, in Miriam Butt and Wilhelm Geuder, eds. “The Projection of Arguments”
- These problems are endemic to the theory of thematic roles as currently conceived, because the classification it implies simply does not correspond to legitimate linguistic semantic definitions.
- 2017 July 26, Lindsay Murdoch, "Yingluck Shinawatra, Thailand's first female PM, faces financial ruin and jail", in smh.com.au, The Sydney Morning Herald;
- In a country where corruption is endemic, no evidence has been presented that Ms Yingluck took any money from the rice scheme, which in 2012 and 2013 cost Thailand billions of dollars. But a state-appointed committee last year ordered her to pay the fine, finding she was to blame, even though it was government policy.
Usage notes
An endemic disease is one which is constantly present in a given area, though usually at low levels, whereas an epidemic is widespread and has a high incidence. A sporadic disease occurs now and then at low levels.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:endemic.
Synonyms
- (native to a particular area): native
- (peculiar to a particular area): indigenous
Antonyms
- (native to a particular area): alien, introduced
- (localized): systemic
Derived terms
Related terms
- ecdemic
- endemism
- epidemic
- pandemic
Translations
Noun
endemic (plural endemics)
- An individual or species that is endemic to a region.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 34:
- The species that appeared as a consequence were endemics; that is, they were found nowhere else in the world.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 34:
- A disease affecting a number of people simultaneously, so as to show a distinct connection with certain localities.
Translations
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “endemic”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Romanian
Etymology
From French endémique
Adjective
endemic m or n (feminine singular endemic?, masculine plural endemici, feminine and neuter plural endemice)
- endemic
Declension
Related terms
- endemicitate
endemic From the web:
- what endemic means
- what endemic disease
- what pandemic was in 1920
- what pandemic
- what pandemic happened in 1918
- what pandemic killed the most people
- what pandemic happened in 2009
- what pandemic happened in 1819
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