noun, feminine/eˈɾenθja/plural: herencias
heredity, inheritance
Related: aceptación de la herencia, adición de la herencia
Inherited from Old Spanish herencia, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin haerentia, an irregular derivation from Latin hēres. The inherited Old Spanish herença didn't survive into modern Spanish. Compare Ladino erensya, Portuguese herança, Galician herdanza.