verbthird conjugation
comprehendō
comprehendō (present infinitive comprehendere, perfect active comprehendī, supine comprehēnsum)
Classical[kɔm.preˈ(ɦ)ɛn.doː]Ecclesiastical[kom.preˈɛn.do]
Meaning
- to lay hold of something on all sides; take or catch hold of, grasp, grip
- to seize upon in a hostile manner, lay hold of; occupy, capture (of a place); arrest, detain, apprehend, catch; to intercept (a letter)
- to discover, detect, come upon, reveal
- to contain, comprise, to enclose, to include, to comprehend
- Late Latinfigurativelyto shut in, to include
- to take root, to take hold
- to become pregnant, to conceive
- to catch (fire)
- Late Latinto combine, unite
- figurativelyto comprehend by sense of sight, perceive, observe, see
- figurativelyto comprehend something by the mind, understand, perceive, grasp
- figurativelyto include or comprehend in words, comprise in discourse, express, describe, recount, narrate
- figurativelyto provide, to establish, to determine
Dig. XLV.I.19 Pomponius libro quinto decimo ad Sabinum Si stipulatio facta fuerit: «si culpa tua divortium factum fuerti, dari?», nulla obligatio est, quia contenti esse debemus poenis legum comprehensis: nisi si et stipulatio tantundem habeat poenae, quanta lege sit comprehensa.
If a stipulation has been made that “it is to be given if by your fault divorce befalls”, then this stipulation is void, because we have to be content with the penalties provided for by the laws: except if the stipulation has a penalty of the same height as is provided for by law. - figurativelyto number, enumerate, reckon
- figurativelyto comprehend someone in affection, embrace with kindness, to bind or put under obligation
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
Conjugation conjugation 3
| form | present | imperfect | future | perfect | pluperfect | fut. perfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | comprehendō | comprehendēbam | comprehendam | comprehendī | comprehenderam | comprehenderō |
| 2nd sg. | comprehendis | comprehendēbās | comprehendēs | comprehendistī | comprehenderās | comprehenderis |
| 3rd sg. | comprehendit | comprehendēbat | comprehendet | comprehendit | comprehenderat | comprehenderit |
| 1st pl. | comprehendimus | comprehendēbāmus | comprehendēmus | comprehendimus | comprehenderāmus | comprehenderimus |
| 2nd pl. | comprehenditis | comprehendēbātis | comprehendētis | comprehendistis | comprehenderātis | comprehenderitis |
| 3rd pl. | comprehendunt | comprehendēbant | comprehendent | comprehendērunt comprehendēre | comprehenderant | comprehenderint |
active subjunctive
| form | present | imperfect | perfect | pluperfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | comprehendam | comprehenderem | comprehenderim | comprehendissem |
| 2nd sg. | comprehendās | comprehenderēs | comprehenderīs | comprehendissēs |
| 3rd sg. | comprehendat | comprehenderet | comprehenderit | comprehendisset |
| 1st pl. | comprehendāmus | comprehenderēmus | comprehenderīmus | comprehendissēmus |
| 2nd pl. | comprehendātis | comprehenderētis | comprehenderītis | comprehendissētis |
| 3rd pl. | comprehendant | comprehenderent | comprehenderint | comprehendissent |
passive indicative
| form | present | imperfect | future |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | comprehendor | comprehendēbar | comprehendar |
| 2nd sg. | comprehenderis comprehendere | comprehendēbāris comprehendēbāre | comprehendēris comprehendēre |
| 3rd sg. | comprehenditur | comprehendēbātur | comprehendētur |
| 1st pl. | comprehendimur | comprehendēbāmur | comprehendēmur |
| 2nd pl. | comprehendiminī | comprehendēbāminī | comprehendēminī |
| 3rd pl. | comprehenduntur | comprehendēbantur | comprehendentur |
passive subjunctive
| form | present | imperfect |
|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | comprehendar | comprehenderer |
| 2nd sg. | comprehendāris comprehendāre | comprehenderēris comprehenderēre |
| 3rd sg. | comprehendātur | comprehenderētur |
| 1st pl. | comprehendāmur | comprehenderēmur |
| 2nd pl. | comprehendāminī | comprehenderēminī |
| 3rd pl. | comprehendantur | comprehenderentur |
imperative
| form | active | passive |
|---|---|---|
| pres. 2nd sg. | comprehende | comprehendere |
| pres. 2nd pl. | comprehendite | comprehendiminī |
| fut. 2nd sg. | comprehenditō | comprehenditor |
| fut. 3rd sg. | comprehenditō | comprehenditor |
| fut. 2nd pl. | comprehenditōte | — |
| fut. 3rd pl. | comprehenduntō | comprehenduntor |
infinitives & participles
| form | active | passive |
|---|---|---|
| present infinitive | comprehendere | comprehendī |
| perfect infinitive | comprehendisse | comprehēnsum esse |
| future infinitive | comprehēnsūrum esse | comprehēnsum īrī |
| present participle | comprehendēns | — |
| perfect participle | — | comprehēnsus comprehēnsa, comprehēnsā, comprehēnsae, comprehēnsam, comprehēnsārum, comprehēnsās, comprehēnse, comprehēnsī, comprehēnsīs, comprehēnsō, comprehēnsōrum, comprehēnsōs |
| future participle | comprehēnsūrus comprehēnsūra, comprehēnsūrā, comprehēnsūrae, comprehēnsūram, comprehēnsūrārum, comprehēnsūrās, comprehēnsūre, comprehēnsūrī, comprehēnsūrīs, comprehēnsūrō, comprehēnsūrōrum, comprehēnsūrōs, comprehēnsūrum | comprehendendus comprehendundus, comprehendenda, comprehendendā, comprehendendae, comprehendendam, comprehendendārum, comprehendendās, comprehendende, comprehendendīs, comprehendendōrum, comprehendendōs |
gerundcomprehendendī, comprehendendō, comprehendendumsupinecomprehēnsum, comprehēnsū
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- ut brevi comprehendam
- in short; to be brief.
- ignem concipere, comprehendere
- to take fire.
- scientia comprehendere aliquid
- to acquire knowledge of a subject.
- comprehensam quandam animo speciem (alicuius rei) habere
- to have formed an ideal notion of a thing.
- animo, mente, cogitatione aliquid comprehendere, complecti
- to grasp a thing mentally.
- penitus percipere et comprehendere aliquid (De Or. 1. 23. 108)
- to have a thorough grasp of a subject.
com-prĕhendo (conp-; also com-prendo, very freq. in MSS. and edd.; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 21. In MSS. also comprae-hendo and compraendo, v. prehendo), di, sum, 3,
I. v. a., to lay hold of something on all sides; to take or catch hold of, seize, grasp, apprehend; to comprehend, comprise (class. in prose and poetry).
I. Prop.
A. In gen.:
quid (opus est) manibus, si nihil comprehendendum est? Cic. N. D. 1, 33, 92: (vulva) non multo major quam ut manu comprehendatur, Cels. 4, 1 fin.: cum (forfex) dentem comprehendere non possit, id. 7, 12, 1: mordicus manum eorum (elephantorum), Plin. 9, 15, 17, § 46: morsu guttura, Luc. 4, 727: nuces modio, Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 3: naves, to join one to another, fasten together, Liv. 30, 10, 5; cf.: oras vulneris suturae comprehendunt, Cels. 7, 4, 3: comprehendunt utrumque et orant, Caes. B. G. 5, 31: ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago, Verg. A. 2, 794; cf. aures, Tib. 2, 5, 92: nisi quae validissima (ovis), non comprehendatur (sc. stabulis) hieme, let none but the strongest be kept in the winter, Col. 7, 3, 15 Schneid.: naves in flumine Vulturno comprehensae, assembled together, put under an embargo, Liv. 26, 7, 9; so id. 29, 24, 9; Suet. Tib. 38; id. Calig. 39: ignem, to take, catch, Caes. B. G. 5, 43; and in a reverse constr.: ignis robora comprendit, Verg. G. 2, 305; cf.: opera flammā comprehensa, Hirt. B. G. 8, 43; and: avidis comprenditur ignibus agger, Ov. M. 9, 234: loca vallo, Front. 2, 11, 7; and absol.: comprehensa aedificia, Liv. 26, 27, 3.—B. In partic.
1. To attack, seize upon in a hostile manner, to seize, lay hold of, arrest, catch, apprehend:
aliquem pro moecho Comprehendere et constringere, Ter. Eun. 5, 5, 23; 5, 1, 20: tam capitalem hostem, Cic. Cat. 2, 2, 3: hominem, id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 4, § 14: nefarios duces, id. Cat. 3, 7, 16: Virginium, Liv. 3, 48, 6; cf. id. 1, 41, 1: praesidium Punicum, id. 26, 14, 7: hunc comprehenderant atque in vincula conjecerant, Caes. B. G. 4, 27; 5, 25: in fugā, id. ib. 5, 21.—Rarely of disease: comprehensus morbo, Just. 23, 2, 4; cf.: comprehensi pestiferā lue, id. 32, 3, 9.—Of places, to occupy, seize upon: aliis comprehensis collibus munitiones perfecerunt, Caes. B. C. 3, 46 fin.—*b. Of things, to intercept'-epistulas, Just. 20, 5, 12.—
2. To seize upon one, to apprehend him in any crime:
fures, Cat. 62, 35.—With inf.: qui interesse concentibus interdictis fuerint comprehensi, Cod. Th. 16, 4, 5.—Hence, b. Transf. to the crime:
nefandum adulterium, to discover, detect it, Cic. Mil. 27, 72: res ejus indicio, id. Clu. 16, 47.—3. Of plants, to take root; of a graft:
cum comprehendit (surculus), Varr. R. R. 1, 40 fin.; so, in gen., Col. 3, 5, 1; 5, 6, 18; Pall. Jan. 13, 5.—4. Of women, to conceive, become pregnant, = concipere:
si mulier non comprehendit, etc., Cels. 5, 21 fin.—5. Of a space, to contain, comprise, comprehend, include:
ut nuces integras, quas uno modio comprehendere possis, Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 3: circuitus ejus triginta et duo stadia comprehendit, Curt. 6, 6, 24. —6. In late medic. lang., of medicines, to combine:
aliquid melle, Veg. Art. Vet. 6, 27, 1; Scrib. Comp. 88; 227 al.—7. Of the range of a missile:
quantum impulsa valet comprehendere lancea nodo, Sil. 4, 102.—8. Of the reach of a surgical instrument:
si vitium in angusto est, quod comprehendere modiolus possit, Cels. 8, 3 init.—II. Trop.
A. To comprehend by the sense of sight, to perceive, observe, see (very rare):
aliquid visu, Sil. 3, 408; and without visu: comprehendere vix litterarum apices, Gell. 13, 30, 10.—B. To comprehend something intellectually, to receive into one's mind, to grasp, perceive, comprehend; with abl.: si quam opinionem jam mentibus vestris comprehendistis: si eam ratio convellet, si oratio labefactabit, etc., if any opinion has already taken root in your mind (the figure taken from the rooting of plants; v. supra, I. B. 3.), Cic. Clu. 2, 6:
omnes animo virtutes, id. Balb. 1, 3; id. N. D. 3, 25, 64: animo haec tenemus comprehensa, non sensibus, id. Ac. 2, 7, 21 sq.: omnia animis et cogitatione, id. Fl. 27, 66; cf. id. de Or. 2, 31, 136: aliquid mente, id. N. D. 3, 8, 21: aliquid memoriā, id. Tusc. 5, 41, 121: qualis animus sit vacans corpore, intellegere et cogitatione comprehendere, id. ib. 1, 22, 50: aliquid certis signis, Col. 6, 24, 3: aliquid experimentis assiduis, Pall. 2, 13, 8.—Without abl.: esse aliquid, quod conprehendi et percipi posset, Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 17; 2, 6, 18: virtutum cognitio confirmat percipi et conprehendi multa posse, id. ib. 2, 8, 23; 1, 11, 42.—C. To comprehend or include in words; to comprise in discourse or in writing, to express, describe, recount, narrate, etc.:
breviter paucis comprendere multa, Lucr. 6, 1082; cf.: breviter comprehensa sententia, Cic. Fin. 2, 7, 20; Quint. 9, 3, 91: comprehendam brevi, Cic. de Or. 1, 8, 34: perinde ac si in hanc formulam omnia judicia conclusa et comprehensa sint, id. Rosc. Com. 5, 15: (Cato) verbis luculentioribus et pluribus rem eandem comprehenderat, id. Att. 12, 21, 1: ipsa natura circumscriptione quādam verborum comprehendit concluditque sententiam, id. Brut. 8, 34: in eā (terrā) enim et lapis et harena et cetera ejus generis sunt in nominando comprehensa, Varr. R. R. 1, 9, 1: emplastra quoque, quae supra comprehensa sunt, Cels. 5, 27, 3; so absol.: ad veterum rerum nostrarum memoriam comprehendendam impulsi sumus, Cic. Brut. 5, 19: aliquid dictis, Ov. M. 13, 160: quae si comprendere coner, id. Tr. 5, 2, 27. —2. Poet.: aliquid numero, to number, enumerate:
neque enim numero comprendere refert, Verg. G. 2, 104; Ov. A. A. 2, 447; cf.: numerum quorum comprendere non est, id. Tr. 5, 11, 19.—D. To comprehend any one in affection, to bind to one's self, to put under obligation, to embrace with kindness (rare;
mostly in Cic.): multos amicitiā, tueri obsequio, etc., to have many friends, Cic. Cael. 6, 13: adulescentem humanitate tuā, id. Fam. 13, 15, 3: quod omnibus officiis per se, per patrem, per majores suos totam Atinatem praefecturam comprehenderit, id. Planc. 19. 47.— E. To shut in, include (late Lat.):
spiritum in effigiem, Lact. 4, 8, 9: elementorum figurae humanā specie comprehensae, id. 2, 6, 1.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
com-prehendō (conp-) or comprēndō, dī, sus, ere,
to bind together, unite: eas navīs funibus, L.—To take hold of, seize, catch, grasp, apprehend: quid (opus est) manibus, si nihil comprehendendum est?: comprehendunt utrumque et orant, Cs.: comprensa manūs effugit imago, V.: forcipe linguam, O.—To include: circuitus rupis XXXII. stadia comprehendit, Cu.—To attack, seize, lay hold of, arrest, catch, apprehend, capture: hunc pro moecho, T.: hostem: fures, Ct.: lictores, L.: alqm in furto: alqm in fugā, Cs.—To detect, discover: adulterium: res indicio. — Of places, to occupy, seize upon: aliis comprehensis collibus munitiones perfecerunt, Cs. — Of fire: ignem, to catch, Cs.: flammā comprehensā naves sunt combustae, Cs.: ignis robora comprendit, V.: avidis comprenditur ignibus agger, O.: comprehensa aedificia, L. — Fig., to take in, grasp, perceive, comprehend: opinionem mentibus: omnia animis: sensu: alqd memoriā, hold.—To comprise, express, describe, recount, narrate: breviter comprehensa sententia: alqd brevi: aliquid dictis, O.: (species) numero, to enumerate, V.: numerum, to reckon, O.—To include, bind, embrace: multos amicitiā: omnibus officiis, per patrem, totam praefecturam.
Origins
From con- + prehendō (“catch, grasp”).
Descendants
- Catalancomprendre
- Englishcomprehend
- Frenchcomprendre
- Italiancomprendere
- Occitancomprendre
- Portuguesecompreender
- Romaniancuprinde
- Romaniancuprindere
- Sardiniancumprèndere
- Sardiniancumprendi
In English words that came into English from comprehendō
- comprehensioncomprehēnsiō
- comprehendcomprehendere
- comprisecomprehendere
- comprehensivecomprehēnsīvus
- comprehensiblecomprehēnsibilis
- incomprehensibleincomprehēnsibilis