apprehensio

Latin

Etymology

From apprehendō (“to seize; understand”) +‎ -tiō.

Noun

apprehēnsiō f (genitive apprehēnsiōnis); third declension

1. seizing or laying hold of
2. apprehension, understanding

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	apprehēnsiō	apprehēnsiōnēs
Genitive	apprehēnsiōnis	apprehēnsiōnum
Dative	apprehēnsiōnī	apprehēnsiōnibus
Accusative	apprehēnsiōnem	apprehēnsiōnēs
Ablative	apprehēnsiōne	apprehēnsiōnibus
Vocative	apprehēnsiō	apprehēnsiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: aprehensió
• English: apprehension
• French: appréhension
• Dalmatian: aprensiaun
• Italian: apprensione
• Portuguese: apreensão
• Romanian: aprehensiune
• Spanish: aprehensión

References

• “apprehensio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• apprehensio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• apprehensio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.