apiscor

From apiō (alternative form of apō (“I fasten”)) +‎ -scō. Cognate with Sanskrit आप्त (āpta, “to reach, gain, take possession of”), आप्नोति (āpnoti, “to obtain, to grasp”), Hittite 𒂊𒅁𒍣 (e-ep-zi, “to take, seize, grab”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key):
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key):

apīscor (present infinitive apīscī, perfect active aptus sum); third conjugation, deponent

1. to reach after, try to seize
2. to pursue
3. to attain or acquire
4. to understand, grasp, comprehend

• (acquire): acquīrō, adipīscor, cōnsequor, lucror, parō, pariō, impetrō, mereō, teneō, sūmō, emō, comparō, obtineō, potior, conciliō, nancīscor, colligō, alliciō
• (comprehend): apprehendō, comprehendō, accipiō, cognōscō, concipiō, teneō, dēprehendō, capiō, complector, excipiō, exaudiō, cōnsequor
• (seize): habeō, concipio, capio, comprehendo, teneo, prehenso
• (pursue): exsequor, persequor, sequor, īnstō, premō, agō

• (antonym(s) of “comprehend”): ignōrō, nesciō
• (antonym(s) of “acquire”): āmittō

• adipīscor
• indipīscor
• redipīscor

• apiscor in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication

• “apiscor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “apiscor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• apiscor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “apt”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN