comprehendo
Pronunciation: [kɔm.preˈ(ɦ)ɛn.doː]
“comprehendo” is a Latin word. Its 15 meanings in English:
verb
- to lay hold of something on all sides; take or catch hold of, grasp, grip
- to seize upon in a hostile manner, lay hold of; occupy, capture (of a place); arrest, detain, apprehend, catch; to intercept (a letter)
- to discover, detect, come upon, reveal
- to contain, comprise, to enclose, to include, to comprehend
- to shut in, to include
- to take root, to take hold
- to become pregnant, to conceive
- to catch (fire)
- to combine, unite
- to comprehend by sense of sight, perceive, observe, see
- to comprehend something by the mind, understand, perceive, grasp
- to include or comprehend in words, comprise in discourse, express, describe, recount, narrate
- to provide, to establish, to determine
- to number, enumerate, reckon
- to comprehend someone in affection, embrace with kindness, to bind or put under obligation
Etymology
From con- + prehendō (“catch, grasp”).
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More Latin words
- compransor
- comprecatio
- comprecor
- comprehendimini
- comprehensamini
- comprehensibilis
- comprehensio
- comprehensivus
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