apprehendo
Latin
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Etymology
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(deprecated template usage) From ad- (“to, towards, at”) + prehendō (“lay hold of, seize”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ap.preˈhen.doː/, [äpːreˈ(ɦ)ɛn̪d̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ap.preˈen.do/, [äpːreˈɛn̪d̪o]
Verb
apprehendō (present infinitive apprehendere, perfect active apprehendī, supine apprehēnsum); third conjugation
- I lay hold upon, grasp, seize, grab, take, take hold of; apprehend, arrest.
- I grasp with the mind, understand, comprehend.
- I embrace, include.
- I take possession of, seize, secure, obtain.
- (Medieval Latin) I learn.
Conjugation
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Descendants
- Aromanian: aprindu, aprindiri
- Asturian: aprender
- Bourguignon: aiprarre
- → aprehendre
- → English: apprehend
- Franco-Provençal: aprendre; → aprèhendar
- Old French: aprendre
- → Old French: apprehender
- French: appréhender
- → English: apprehend
- → Galician: aprehender
- Italian: apprendere
- Old Occitan: aprendre
- Old Galician-Portuguese: aprender
- → Portuguese: apreender
- Romanian: aprinde, aprindere; → aprehenda
- Sicilian: apprènniri
- Spanish: aprender; → aprehender
References
- apprehendo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “apprehendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “apprehendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- apprehendo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.