herança

Portuguese

Alternative forms

herdança (dialectal)
erança (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese erança, from Latin haerentia, from haerēns.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /eˈɾɐ̃.sɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /eˈɾɐ̃.sa/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /eˈɾɐ̃.sɐ/, /iˈɾɐ̃.sɐ/

Hyphenation: he‧ran‧ça

Noun

herança f (plural heranças)

heritage, inheritance, legacy

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:herança.

Further reading

“herança”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“herança”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026