legacy

Từ điển American Heritage Dictionary 4th

leg·a·cy (lĕgʹə-sē)n. pl. leg·a·cies
1. Money or property bequeathed to another by will.
2. Something handed down from an ancestor or a predecessor or from the past:
a legacy of religious freedom.
See Synonyms at heritage. [Middle English legacie, office of a deputy, from Old French, from Medieval Latin lēgātia, from Latin lēgātus, past participle of lēgāre, to depute, bequeath. See leg- in Indo-European Roots.]