inhere

I1N1H4E1R1E1
UK/ɪnˈhɪə/

verb

To be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something.

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Meanings

verbinhere (third-person singular simple present inheres, present participle inhering, simple past and past participle inhered)

present singular third person inheres · participle present inhering · participle past inhered · past inhered · alternative archaic inhære

  1. uncommonTo be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something.

    The error inheres in thinking of lexical items as coherent units existing at a single level.

    2018, David P. Medeiros, “ULTRA: Universal Grammar as a Universal Parser”, in Frontiers in Psychology, volume 9, →DOI, pages 155-2
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    He [Massinger] inherits the traditions of conduct, female chastity, hymeneal sanctity, the fashion of honour, without either criticizing or informing them from his own experience. In the earlier drama these conventions are merely a framework, or an alloy necessary for working the metal; the metal itself consisted of unique emotions resulting inevitably from the circumstances, resulting or inhering as inevitably as the properties of a chemical compound.

    1932, T. S. Eliot, “Philip Massinger”, in Essays on Elizabethan Drama, USA: Harcourt Brace & World, Inc., published 1960, page 151

    We had already been claimed by the split infinitives of Star Trek, were already preparing to boldly go into a world where ethics, so far from inhering in the very structure of the cosmos, was a matter of personal taste […].

    2001, Will Self, Feeding Frenzy

    […]such developments are attributable in part to the tendencies for parallel 'drift' that inhere in genetically related languages because of the perseverance of typological similarities – an idea originally put forward by Sapir.

    2008, Zev Handel, “What is Sino-Tibetan? Snapshot of a Field and a Language Family in Flux”, in Language and Linguistics Compass, volume 2, number 3, →DOI, pages 422-441

    Sovereignty should inhere in the people and not the government, so governments forfeit sovereignty when they commit crimes against humanity.

    5 January 2009, John Kraemer, Larry Gostin, The Guardian

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Italic*en
  3. Proto-Italic*en-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Latinhaereō
  6. Latininhaereō
  7. Englishinhere

Borrowed from Latin inhaerēre (“stick in, stick to, inhere to”), from in (“in”) + haereō (“stick”); see hesitate. Compare adhere, cohere.

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Translations

Bulgarian принадлежа
  • принадлежа (prinadleža)To be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something
Chinese Mandarin 固有, 与生俱来
  • 固有 (gùyǒu)To be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something
  • 与生俱来 (yǔshēngjùlái)To be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something
Dutch inhouden, een inherent deel van uitmaken
  • inhoudenTo be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something
  • een inherent deel van uitmakenTo be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something
Finnish kuulua (olennaisena osana)
  • kuulua (olennaisena osana)To be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something
French être inhérent à
  • être inhérent àTo be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something
German innewohnen, anhaften
  • innewohnenTo be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something
  • anhaftenTo be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something
  • enthalten seinTo be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something
  • zu etwas / jmdn. gehörenTo be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something
Italian essere inerente, connesso (a)
  • essere inerenteTo be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something
  • connesso (a)To be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something
  • appartenere (a)To be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something
  • essere proprioTo be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something
  • essere intrinseco (a)To be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something
Portuguese inerir
  • inerirTo be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something
Romanian fi inerent
  • fi inerentTo be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something
Russian принадлежа́ть, явля́ться частью
  • принадлежа́ть (prinadležátʹ)To be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something
  • явля́ться частью (javljátʹsja častʹju)To be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something
Spanish ser inherente
  • ser inherenteTo be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something

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