comprehendo

Meaning

  1. (conjugation-3) to lay hold of something on all sides; take or catch hold of, grasp, grip
  2. (conjugation-3) to seize upon in a hostile manner, lay hold of; occupy, capture (of a place); arrest, detain, apprehend, catch; to intercept (a letter)
  3. (conjugation-3) to discover, detect, come upon, reveal
  4. (conjugation-3) to contain, comprise, to enclose, to include, to comprehend
  5. (Late-Latin, conjugation-3, figuratively) to shut in, to include
  6. (conjugation-3) to conjoin, to fuse with the thing that has come close
  7. (conjugation-3) to conjoin, to fuse with the thing that has come close
  8. (conjugation-3) to conjoin, to fuse with the thing that has come close
  9. (Late-Latin, conjugation-3) to conjoin, to fuse with the thing that has come close
  10. (conjugation-3, figuratively) to be connected to a structure serving cognition as follows
  11. (conjugation-3, figuratively) to be connected to a structure serving cognition as follows
  12. (conjugation-3, figuratively) to be connected to a structure serving cognition as follows
  13. (conjugation-3, figuratively) to be connected to a structure serving cognition as follows
  14. (conjugation-3, figuratively) to be connected to a structure serving cognition as follows
  15. (conjugation-3, figuratively) to be connected to a structure serving cognition as follows

Opposite of
nesciō, ignōrō
Frequency

A1
Pronounced as (IPA)
[kɔm.preˈ(ɦ)ɛn.doː]
Etymology

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

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