prehensio

Latin

Etymology

From prehendō (“to seize”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /preˈhen.si.oː/, [preˈ(ɦ)ẽːs̠ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /preˈen.si.o/, [preˈɛnsio]

Noun

prehēnsiō f (genitive prehēnsiōnis); third declension

1. seizing, apprehending, arresting, capturing

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	prehēnsiō	prehēnsiōnēs
Genitive	prehēnsiōnis	prehēnsiōnum
Dative	prehēnsiōnī	prehēnsiōnibus
Accusative	prehēnsiōnem	prehēnsiōnēs
Ablative	prehēnsiōne	prehēnsiōnibus
Vocative	prehēnsiō	prehēnsiōnēs

Related terms

• prehendō

Descendants

• North-Italian:
  • Emilian: parzon
  • Ligurian: prexón
  • Lombard: preson, person
  • Piedmontese: përzon
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: prêson, preison
  • Old French: prison
    • → Middle English: prisoun
      • English: prison
      • Scots: preeson
    • French: prison
    • Norman: prison (Jersey)
• Occitano-Romance
  • Catalan: presó
  • Occitan: preson
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: presón (dated)
• Borrowings:
  • → Catalan: prensió
  • → English: prehension
  • → French: préhension
  • → Galician: prensión, prisión
  • → Italian: prensione, prigione
  • → Portuguese: preensão, prisão
  • → Spanish: prensión, prisión
    • → Aragonese: prisión

References

• “prehensio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• prehensio 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)
• prehensio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.