prender

Meaning

1. to arrest (to seize and take into legal custody)
2. to attach or bind
3. to restrain; to restrict
4. to become close (emotionally) to someone

Hyphenated as

pren‧der

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɾẽˈde(ʁ)/

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese prender, from Latin prēndere, variant of prehendere (“to seize; to detain”), from prae- (“before”) + *hendō (“to take, to seize”) (not attested without prefix), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed-.