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deprehendo
deprehendo
Latin
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Verb
dēprehendō (present infinitive dēprehendere, perfect active dēprehendī, supine dēprehensum); third conjugation
- I take away, seize, snatch.
- I overtake.
- I catch.
- I surprise, apprehend, detect, find out, discover.
- I confine.
- I embarrass.
- I comprehend, understand, perceive, detect, discover, discern, observe.
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Descendants
- Catalan: deprendre
- Galician: deprender
- Portuguese: depreender
- Romanian: deprinde, deprindere
- Spanish: deprehender
References
- deprehendo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- deprehendo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “deprehendo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to take forcible possession of a letter: epistulam deprehendere
- to catch a person, find him out: deprehendere aliquem (in aliqua re)
- to take a person in the act: deprehendere aliquem in manifesto scelere
- to capture a boat: navem capere, intercipere, deprehendere
- to take forcible possession of a letter: epistulam deprehendere