comprehensio
Latin
Alternative forms
- comprēnsiō
- conprehēnsiō
Etymology
Etymology tree
Latin comprehendō
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
- a seizing, taking hold of, catching; arrest, apprehension
- a comprehension, perception, idea, understanding
- an expression, style
- 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
Descendants
Descendants
- Catalan: comprensió
- English: comprehension
- French: compréhension
- Italian: comprensione
- Portuguese: compreensão
- Romanian: comprehensiune
- 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
- the period: ambitus, circuitus, comprehensio, continuatio (verborum, orationis), also simply periodus