different between inheritance vs parage

English

Alternative forms

• enheritance (obsolete)
• enheritaunce (obsolete)
• inheritaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

Recorded since 1473, inherit +? -ance. More at inherit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?h???t?ns/

Noun

inheritance (countable and uncountable, plural inheritances)

1. The passing of title to an estate upon death.
2. (countable) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
3. (uncountable, especially linguistics, biology) The act or mechanism of inheriting; the state of having inherited

   The Indo-European languages share various similarities as a result of their inheritance from a common ancestor.

4. (biology, genetic algorithms) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
5. (programming, object-oriented programming) The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• inheritance law
• preheritance

Related terms

• inherit
• inheritable
• inheritor

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “inheritance”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

English

Etymology

From Middle English parage, from Old French parage, perage, from pair (“equal”) + -age. Doublet of peerage.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pa??d?/

Noun

parage (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Lineage, parentage; rank, especially as high or noble.
2. A feudal institution that recognizes equality of rights and status between two rulers, and equality in the portions of an inheritance.
3. A woman's marriage portion or dowry.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.?a?/

Noun

parage m (plural parages)

1. parage (social rank)
2. (plural only) environs, surroundings

Further reading

• “parage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• parag, perage, porache

Etymology

From Old French parage; equivalent to pere (“peer”) +? -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?ra?d?(?)/

Noun

parage (uncountable)

1. One's bloodline or ancestry, especially in terms of relative social status.
2. A great or noble bloodline; an ancestry of high social status.
3. (rare) Common social status or position; societal equalness.
4. (rare) The right to hold land due to one's societal equivalence to other tenants.
5. (rare) Esteem, significance.

Related terms

• disparage
• disparagen

Descendants

• English: parage

References

• “par??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-21.

Old French

Alternative forms

• paraige (Conon de Béthune)

Noun

parage m (oblique plural parages, nominative singular parages, nominative plural parage)

1. parage (social rank)

Descendants

• Middle English: parage, parag, perage, porache
  • English: parage
• French: parage

See also

• eritage
• linage