inherit

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
inherit/ɪnˈherɪt/

▶verb (inherits, inheriting, inherited)

• 1 receive (money, property, or a title) as an heir at the death of the previous holder.

• 2 derive (a quality or characteristic) from one's parents or ancestors.

  ■ receive or be left with (a situation, object, etc.) from a predecessor or former owner.

– derivatives
inheritability noun,
inheritable adjective,
inheritor noun.

– origin ME enherite ‘receive as a right’, from OFr. enheriter, from late L. inhereditare ‘appoint as heir’.