inherit Copy link • inherit: i. e. to receive by hereditary succession: per successionem accipio, cf. Plin. 12, 13, 30 § 54, jus per successiones id sibi vindicant; also, Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 4, morbi per successiones quasdam traduntur, i. e. are inherited. (The terms heres, hereditas, denote simply succession by testament: v. heir, inheritance.) Phr.: to have a name i.'d from any one, nomen ab aliquo hereditarium habere, Cic. Rep. 6, 11: he had i.'d the complaint from his father, patrius hic (morbus) illi, Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 4.