compreender

Sentences
Meaning

  1. (transitive) to understand; to comprehend
  2. (transitive) to understand; to get (to know how a person feels)
  3. (transitive) to include; to encompass; to comprise

Frequency

B1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kõ.pɾe.ẽˈde(ʁ)/
Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin comprehendere (“to grasp”). Cf. the older variant comprehender, as well as the inherited comprender. The latter was likely modified into its current form to more closely reflect the Latin etymology.

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