# comprehendo
## Latin
### Alternative forms

* comprēndō, conprehendō

### Etymology

From con- +‎ prehendō (“catch, grasp”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /kom.preˈhen.doː/, [kɔmpreˈ(ɦ)ɛn̪d̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /kom.preˈen.do/, [kompreˈɛn̪d̪o]

### Verb

comprehendō (present infinitive comprehendere, perfect active comprehendī, supine comprehēnsum); third conjugation
* to lay hold of something on all sides; take or catch hold of, grasp, grip
    Synonyms: capiō, tangō, apprehendō, dēprehendō, prehēnsō, potior, temptō, teneō, capessō, prehēndō, arripiō
* to seize upon in a hostile manner, lay hold of; occupy, capture (of a place); arrest, detain, apprehend, catch; to intercept (a letter)
    Synonyms: expugnō, claudō, capiō, teneō, occupō, obtineō, compleō, apprehendō, opprimō, inclūdō, possideō, obsideō, retineō
* (to a crime or deed) to discover, detect, come upon, reveal
* (of space) to contain, comprise, to enclose, to include, to comprehend
* (figuratively, Late Latin) to shut in, to include
* to conjoin, to fuse with the thing that has come close
** (of plants) to take root, to take hold
** (of a woman) to become pregnant, to conceive
** (with ignem) to catch (fire)
** (Late Latin, of medicines) to combine, unite
* (figuratively) to be connected to a structure serving cognition as follows
** to comprehend by sense of sight, perceive, observe, see
** to comprehend something by the mind, understand, perceive, grasp
    Synonyms: apprehendō, dēprehendō, accipiō, cognōscō, concipiō, teneō, apīscor, capiō, complector, excipiō, exaudiō, cōnsequor
    Antonyms: nesciō, ignōrō
** to include or comprehend in words, comprise in discourse, express, describe, recount, narrate
** (of law) to provide, to establish, to determine
*** Dig. XLV.I.19 Pomponius libro quinto decimo ad Sabinum
    Si stipulatio facta fuerit: «si culpa tua divortium factum fuerti, dari?», nulla obligatio est, quia contenti esse debemus poenis legum comprehensis: nisi si et stipulatio tantundem habeat poenae, quanta lege sit comprehensa.If a stipulation has been made that “it is to be given if by your fault divorce befalls”, then this stipulation is void, because we have to be content with the penalties provided for by the laws: except if the stipulation has a penalty of the same height as is provided for by law.
** to number, enumerate, reckon
** to comprehend someone in affection, embrace with kindness, to bind or put under obligation

#### Derived terms

* comprehēnere
* comprehēnsibilis
* comprehēnsiō
* comprehēnsīvus
* comprehēnsō
* comprehēnsus

#### Related terms

* apprehendō
* dēprehendō
* prehendō
* reprehendō

#### Descendants

* Asturian: comprender
* Bourguignon: comprandre, comprarre
* Catalan: comprendre
* English: comprehend
* French: comprendre
* Galician: comprender
* Italian: comprendere
* Occitan: comprendre
* Portuguese: compreender
* Romanian: cuprinde, cuprindere
* Sardinian: cumprèndere, cumprendi, cumprindi, cumprèndiri, cumprènnere
* Sicilian: cumprènniri
* Spanish: comprender

### 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
* comprehendo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (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

## Portuguese
### Verb

comprehendo
* first-person singular present indicative of comprehender

## Spanish
### Verb

comprehendo
* first-person singular present indicative of comprehender