We explain what the heritage of a society or an individual is, the origin and evolution of the term. Also, what is acerbo.
The heritage represents the heritage or tradition of a people.What is a collection?
According to the first definition of the Royal Spanish Academy, the term heritage refers to a “Set of values or cultural assets accumulated by tradition or inheritance”. That is, it is a set of objects, knowledge and practices endowed with a historical and cultural value, which represent an inheritance or a tradition specific to a town, a society or an individual.
However, with that same word we name, in general, the sets of things, whether they are goods belonging to several persons (Community acquis), or even the whole of the Genetic information of a population for a given time (gene pool). That is, the word heritage refers to a collective property of some kind, the value of which is intended for posterity or preservation in the future. weather.
This last sense is the one it had in Latin, its language of origin, when the word acervus it designated any "accumulation of things".The entry of this word into Spanish is considered late in the history of the idiom: its first appearances date from the seventeenth century, always with the sense of treasure or heritage acquired by inheritance or tradition.
In fact, in legal language, the acquis is the totality of the common and undivided assets of a company, commercial community or a group of joint heirs or creditors.
Heritage and heritage
Unlike heritage, a word whose meaning we have just explained, the word acerbo has a radically different meaning, despite the fact that they differ by just one letter. In this case, acerbo is a adjective which means "rough to taste", "cruel" or "rigorous". It is used to say that something or someone is aggressive, harsh or unnecessarily cruel. For example, in: "bitter criticism", "a bitter tutor" or "a bitter training".