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From heritor, formed in imitation of female equivalents in -trix. By surface analysis, herit + -trix.
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From heritor, formed in imitation of female equivalents in -trix. By surface analysis, herit + -trix.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.