comprehensus

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of comprehendō.

Participle

comprehēnsus (feminine comprehēnsa, neuter comprehēnsum); first/second-declension participle

  1. taken, caught, grasped
  2. arrested, detained
  3. comprehended

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative comprehēnsus comprehēnsa comprehēnsum comprehēnsī comprehēnsae comprehēnsa
genitive comprehēnsī comprehēnsae comprehēnsī comprehēnsōrum comprehēnsārum comprehēnsōrum
dative comprehēnsō comprehēnsae comprehēnsō comprehēnsīs
accusative comprehēnsum comprehēnsam comprehēnsum comprehēnsōs comprehēnsās comprehēnsa
ablative comprehēnsō comprehēnsā comprehēnsō comprehēnsīs
vocative comprehēnse comprehēnsa comprehēnsum comprehēnsī comprehēnsae comprehēnsa

Descendants

  • English: comprise
  • French: compris
  • Italian: compreso
  • Romanian: cuprins

References

  • comprehensus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • comprehensus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • comprehensus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to have formed an ideal notion of a thing: comprehensam quandam animo speciem (alicuius rei) habere