comprehensio

Latin

Alternative forms

• comprēnsiō
• conprehēnsiō

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *per-

Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-i

Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?

Proto-Italic *prai

Proto-Italic *prai-

Proto-Indo-European *gʰed-

Proto-Indo-European *-né-

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *gʰnédti

Proto-Italic *hendō

Proto-Italic *praiɣendō

Latin prehendō

Latin comprehendō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin comprehēnsiō

From comprehendō + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔm.preˈ(ɦ)ẽː.si.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kom.preˈɛn.si.o]

Noun

comprehēnsiō f (genitive comprehēnsiōnis); third declension

1. a seizing, taking hold of, catching; arrest, apprehension
2. a comprehension, perception, idea, understanding
3. an expression, style
4. a region, area, zone

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	comprehēnsiō	comprehēnsiōnēs
genitive	comprehēnsiōnis	comprehēnsiōnum
dative	comprehēnsiōnī	comprehēnsiōnibus
accusative	comprehēnsiōnem	comprehēnsiōnēs
ablative	comprehēnsiōne	comprehēnsiōnibus
vocative	comprehēnsiō	comprehēnsiōnēs

Synonyms

• (perception): perceptiō

Related terms

• comprehendō
• comprehēnsibilis
• comprehēnsīvus
• comprehēnsō

Descendants

Descendants

• → Catalan: comprensió
• → Middle English: comprehensioun (possibly through Middle French)
  • English: comprehension
  • Middle Scots: comprehension, comprehensioun
• → Middle French: comprehension
  • French: compréhension
    • → Romanian: comprehensiune
• → Italian: comprensione
• → Portuguese: compreensão
• → Spanish: comprensión, comprehensión

References

• “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