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Latin
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Etymology
From con- + prehendō (“catch, grasp”).
Pronunciation
Verb
comprehendō (present infinitive comprehendere, perfect active comprehendī, supine comprehēnsum); third conjugation
- to lay hold of something on all sides; take or catch hold of, grasp, grip
- Synonyms: capiō, tangō, apprehendō, dēprehendō, prehēnsō, potior, temptō, teneō, capessō, prehēndō, arripiō
- to seize upon in a hostile manner, lay hold of; occupy, capture (of a place); arrest, detain, apprehend, catch; to intercept (a letter)
- Synonyms: expugnō, claudō, capiō, teneō, occupō, obtineō, compleō, apprehendō, opprimō, inclūdō, possideō, obsideō, retineō
- (to a crime or deed) to discover, detect, come upon, reveal
- (of space) to contain, comprise, to enclose, to include, to comprehend
- (figuratively, Late Latin) to shut in, to include
- to conjoin, to fuse with the thing that has come close
- (of plants) to take root, to take hold
- (of a woman) to become pregnant, to conceive
- (with ignem) to catch (fire)
- (Late Latin, of medicines) to combine, unite
- (figuratively) to be connected to a structure serving cognition as follows
- to comprehend by sense of sight, perceive, observe, see
- to comprehend something by the mind, understand, perceive, grasp
- Synonyms: apprehendō, dēprehendō, accipiō, cognōscō, concipiō, teneō, apīscor, capiō, complector, excipiō, exaudiō, cōnsequor
- Antonyms: nesciō, ignōrō
- to include or comprehend in words, comprise in discourse, express, describe, recount, narrate
- (of law) to provide, to establish, to determine
- Dig. XLV.I.19 Pomponius libro quinto decimo ad Sabinum
Si stipulatio facta fuerit: «si culpa tua divortium factum fuerti, dari?», nulla obligatio est, quia contenti esse debemus poenis legum comprehensis: nisi si et stipulatio tantundem habeat poenae, quanta lege sit comprehensa.- If a stipulation has been made that “it is to be given if by your fault divorce befalls”, then this stipulation is void, because we have to be content with the penalties provided for by the laws: except if the stipulation has a penalty of the same height as is provided for by law.
- to number, enumerate, reckon
- to comprehend someone in affection, embrace with kindness, to bind or put under obligation
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References
- “comprehendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “comprehendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- comprehendo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to take fire: ignem concipere, comprehendere
- to grasp a thing mentally: animo, mente, cogitatione aliquid comprehendere, complecti
- to acquire knowledge of a subject: scientia comprehendere aliquid
- to have a thorough grasp of a subject: penitus percipere et comprehendere aliquid (De Or. 1. 23. 108)
- in short; to be brief: ut brevi comprehendam
Portuguese
Verb
comprehendo
- first-person singular present indicative of comprehender
Spanish
Verb
comprehendo
- first-person singular present indicative of comprehender