comprehensio

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From comprehendō (seize, apprehend; perceive, observe).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /kom.preˈhen.si.oː/, [kɔm.prɛˈhẽː.si.oː]

Noun

comprehensiō f (genitive comprehensiōnis); 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

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative comprehensiō comprehensiōnēs
genitive comprehensiōnis comprehensiōnum
dative comprehensiōnī comprehensiōnibus
accusative comprehensiōnem comprehensiōnēs
ablative comprehensiōne comprehensiōnibus
vocative comprehensiō comprehensiōnēs

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Descendants

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, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the period: ambitus, circuitus, comprehensio, continuatio (verborum, orationis), also simply periodus
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