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“apprehension” in Latin
comprehēnsiōa seizing, taking hold of, catching; arrest, apprehension; a comprehension, perception, idea, understanding; an expressiprehēnsiōan act of seizing, apprehending, arresting, capturing; the right or power to seize or arrestcapiōto take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm; to take on, adopt; to hold, to containintellegentiaintelligence, the power of discernment; understanding, knowledge; taste, skill, the capacity to be a connoisseurprūdēnswise, prudent; skilful, knowledgeable (in a specific matter)ingeniuminnate or natural quality, natural character; nature; disposition, temper, inclination; intelligence, natural capacitysōnsguilty; criminalaliquissomeone, somebody, anyone, something, anything; sometimes to be followed by the word else; some, anyintellegōto understand, comprehend, realize, come to know; to perceive, discern, see, observe, recognise; feel, notice
The English word apprehension itself goes back to Latin prehendō, through apprehensio.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
apprehension
comprehensio (act of seizing; of arresting; e.g., sontium, Cic..): prehensio (in a judicial sense; e.g., jus prehensionis habere, of arrest).
Mental conception, captus (manner of apprehending; in classical prose, only in the phrase ut est captus alicujus or aliquorum): vis percipiendi (faculty of comprehending): intelligentia (power of understanding; understanding; post-Augustan, intellectus): intelligendi prudentia or prudentia (the understanding as a faculty, and a clear view into the nature of things obtained by its means, Cic., De Or., 1, 20, 90; and Partitiones Oratoriae, 8, 29): ingenium (mental powers generally; quickness, talents). Quickness of apprehension, celeritas percipiendi; celeritas ingenii. Quick of apprehension, docilis: in aliquo est ingenii docilitas (easily learning): perspicax (seeing clearly through a thing). Slow of apprehension, indocilis: tardus: stupidus. To descend to the apprehension of one’s audience, ad intelligentiam audientium or auditorum descendere. Suited, adapted, etc., to the apprehension of ordinary men, ad sensum popularem vulgaremque or ad commune judicium popularemque intelligentiam accommodatus or accommodate; intelligentia a vulgari non remotus: to descend to the apprehension of one’s pupils, of beginners, ad intelligentiam discentium descendere; se summittere ad mensuram discentium (Quint.): to be beyond our apprehension, fugere intelligently nostrae vim: to sharpen apprehensions, ingenium or intelligendi prudentiam acuere.
Notion, opinion, Vid:
Fear, anxiety, Vid.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for apprehension?
- The usual Latin words for “apprehension” are comprehēnsiō, prehēnsiō, capiō; also intellegentia, prūdēns, ingenium. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.