comprehensio

Latin

Alternative forms

• comprensiō
• conprehensiō

Etymology

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

1. a seizing, taking hold of, catching; arrest, apprehension
2. a comprehension, perception, idea, understanding
3. an expression, style
4. 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

• comprehendō
• comprehensibilis
• comprehensīvus
• comprehensō

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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the period: ambitus, circuitus, comprehensio, continuatio (verborum, orationis), also simply periodus