comprehensus

Latin

Alternative forms

• comprensus

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of comprehendō.

Participle

comprehēnsus (feminine comprehēnsa, neuter comprehēnsum); first/second-declension participle

1. taken, caught, grasped
2. arrested, detained
3. comprehended

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	comprehēnsus	comprehēnsa	comprehēnsum		comprehēnsī	comprehēnsae	comprehēnsa
genitive	comprehēnsī	comprehēnsae	comprehēnsī		comprehēnsōrum	comprehēnsārum	comprehēnsōrum
dative	comprehēnsō	comprehēnsae	comprehēnsō		comprehēnsīs
accusative	comprehēnsum	comprehēnsam	comprehēnsum		comprehēnsōs	comprehēnsās	comprehēnsa
ablative	comprehēnsō	comprehēnsā	comprehēnsō		comprehēnsīs
vocative	comprehēnse	comprehēnsa	comprehēnsum		comprehēnsī	comprehēnsae	comprehēnsa

Descendants

• English: comprise
• French: compris
• Italian: compreso
• Romanian: cuprins

References

• “comprehensus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “comprehensus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “comprehensus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to have formed an ideal notion of a thing: comprehensam quandam animo speciem (alicuius rei) habere