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comprehendo
comprehendo
Latin
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comprehendō (present infinitive comprehendere, perfect active comprehendī, supine comprehensum); third conjugation
- I lay hold of something on all sides; take or catch hold of, grasp, grip.
- I seize upon in a hostile manner, lay hold of; occupy, capture (of a place); arrest, detain, apprehend, catch.
- (to a crime or deed) I discover, detect, come upon, reveal.
- I intercept a letter.
- (of plants) I take root, take hold.
- (of a woman) I become pregnant, conceive.
- (of space) I contain, comprise, enclose, include, comprehend.
- (with ignem) I catch (fire).
- (Late Latin, of medicines) I combine, unite.
- (figuratively) I comprehend by sense of sight, perceive, observe, see.
- (figuratively) I comprehend something by the mind, understand, perceive, grasp, comprehend.
- (figuratively) I include or comprehend in words, comprise in discourse, express, describe, recount, narrate.
- (figuratively) I number, enumerate, reckon.
- (figuratively) I comprehend someone in affection, embrace with kindness, bind or put under obligation.
- (figuratively, Late Latin) I shut in, include.
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References
- comprehendo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- comprehendo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “comprehendo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to take fire: ignem concipere, comprehendere
- to grasp a thing mentally: animo, mente, cogitatione aliquid comprehendere, complecti
- to acquire knowledge of a subject: scientia comprehendere aliquid
- to have a thorough grasp of a subject: penitus percipere et comprehendere aliquid (De Or. 1. 23. 108)
- in short; to be brief: ut brevi comprehendam
- to take fire: ignem concipere, comprehendere