comprehensibilis
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From comprehendō (“seize, apprehend; perceive, observe”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kom.pre.henˈsi.bi.lis/, [kɔmpre(ɦ)ẽːˈs̠ɪbɪlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kom.pre.enˈsi.bi.lis/, [kompreːnˈsiːbilis]
Adjective edit
comprehēnsibilis (neuter comprehēnsibile); third-declension two-termination adjective
- That can be seized or laid hold of.
- (of the senses) perceptible, evident
- (to the mind) perceptible, conceivable, intelligible, graspable
Declension edit
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | comprehēnsibilis | comprehēnsibile | comprehēnsibilēs | comprehēnsibilia | |
| Genitive | comprehēnsibilis | comprehēnsibilium | |||
| Dative | comprehēnsibilī | comprehēnsibilibus | |||
| Accusative | comprehēnsibilem | comprehēnsibile | comprehēnsibilēs comprehēnsibilīs |
comprehēnsibilia | |
| Ablative | comprehēnsibilī | comprehēnsibilibus | |||
| Vocative | comprehēnsibilis | comprehēnsibile | comprehēnsibilēs | comprehēnsibilia | |
Synonyms edit
- (conceivable): comprehensīvus
Antonyms edit
- (antonym(s) of “inconceivable”): incomprehensibilis
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Catalan: comprensible
- English: comprehensible
- French: compréhensible
- Italian: comprensibile
- Portuguese: compreensível
- Romanian: comprehensibil
- Spanish: comprensible
References edit
- “comprehensibilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “comprehensibilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- comprehensibilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.