Latin

Alternative forms

• comprensiō
• conprehensiō

Noun

comprehensiō f ‎(genitive comprehensiōnis); third declension

1. a seizing, taking hold of, catching; arrest, apprehension
2. a comprehension, perception, idea, understanding
3. an expression, style
4. a region, area, zone

Inflection

Third declension.

Synonyms

• (perception): perceptiō

Related terms

Descendants

References

• comprehensio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• comprehensio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “comprehensio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the period: ambitus, circuitus, comprehensio, continuatio (verborum, orationis), also simply periodus