comprehensio
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Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From comprehendō + -tiō.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kom.preˈhen.si.oː/, [kɔmpreˈ(ɦ)ẽːs̠ioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kom.preˈen.si.o/, [kompreˈɛnsio]
Noun
[edit]comprehēnsiō f (genitive comprehēnsiōnis); third declension
- a seizing, taking hold of, catching; arrest, apprehension
- a comprehension, perception, idea, understanding
- an expression, style
- a region, area, zone
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | comprehēnsiō | comprehēnsiōnēs |
Genitive | comprehēnsiōnis | comprehēnsiōnum |
Dative | comprehēnsiōnī | comprehēnsiōnibus |
Accusative | comprehēnsiōnem | comprehēnsiōnēs |
Ablative | comprehēnsiōne | comprehēnsiōnibus |
Vocative | comprehēnsiō | comprehēnsiōnēs |
Synonyms
[edit]- (perception): perceptiō
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Descendants
- Catalan: comprensió
- English: comprehension
- French: compréhension
- Italian: comprensione
- Portuguese: compreensão
- Romanian: comprehensiune
- Spanish: comprensión, comprehensión
References
[edit]- “comprehensio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “comprehensio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- comprehensio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the period: ambitus, circuitus, comprehensio, continuatio (verborum, orationis), also simply periodus
- the period: ambitus, circuitus, comprehensio, continuatio (verborum, orationis), also simply periodus