reprehendo

reprehendo

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

    From re- + prehendō (catch, grasp).

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    reprehendō (present infinitive reprehendere, perfect active reprehendī, supine reprehēnsum); third conjugation

    1. to hold back, hold fast, take hold of, seize, catch
    2. to hold fast, check, restrain; retrieve, recover, restore
    3. to blame, find fault with, censure, reprove, rebuke, reprehend, scold
      Synonyms: obiūrgō, castīgō, perstringō, arguō, īnsector, corripiō, accūsō, incūsō, damnō, obloquor, exprobrō, increpō, acclāmō, inclāmō, animadvertō, compellō
    4. (law) to convict, pass judgment on, prosecute, reprimand
      Synonyms: accūsō, condemnō, iūdicō, damnō
    5. (rhetoric) to refute

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    References

    • reprehendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • reprehendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • reprehendo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • I blame this in you; I censure you for this: hoc in te reprehendo (not ob eam rem)

    Portuguese

    Verb

    reprehendo

    1. first-person singular present indicative of reprehender

    Spanish

    Verb

    reprehendo

    1. first-person singular present indicative of reprehender