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postremogeniture
Mar. 4th, 2024 07:49 amTheme week! Brobdingnagian words -- that is, words that are huge/gigantic, starting with:
postremogeniture (po-stree-moh-JEN-i-cher, po-stree-moh-JEN-i-choor) - n., a system of inheritance by which the youngest child or youngest son succeeds to the estate.
Also called ultimogeniture. In cultures that practice this, the assumption typically is either that by the time the parents die, the older children have had the chance to establish themselves but the youngest has not, or that the youngest is expected to stay home and take care of the aged parents till they die and so receives in compensation the bulk of the inheritance. Coined in 1865 on the pattern of primogeniture (inheritance by the eldest) from Latin postrēmōgenitus, from postrēmus, (one who is) last + genitūra, begotten/born. (Ultimogeniture, which may be the more common term, was coined in 1882.)
---L.
postremogeniture (po-stree-moh-JEN-i-cher, po-stree-moh-JEN-i-choor) - n., a system of inheritance by which the youngest child or youngest son succeeds to the estate.
Also called ultimogeniture. In cultures that practice this, the assumption typically is either that by the time the parents die, the older children have had the chance to establish themselves but the youngest has not, or that the youngest is expected to stay home and take care of the aged parents till they die and so receives in compensation the bulk of the inheritance. Coined in 1865 on the pattern of primogeniture (inheritance by the eldest) from Latin postrēmōgenitus, from postrēmus, (one who is) last + genitūra, begotten/born. (Ultimogeniture, which may be the more common term, was coined in 1882.)
---L.
