prensio Latin · revision 10022

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Varro|origins=ine-pro *gʰed-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈprẽː.si.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈprɛn.si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''prēnsiō''' ''f'' (genitive prēnsiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a contracted form of [[prehēnsiō]], from [[prehendō]] “to seize”, contracted [[prēndō]], with [[m|la|-tiō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨prehendō⟩ to Proto-Italic ⟨*(prai-)χend-⟩ “to seize”, [[ine-pro|*gʰ-n(e)-d-|t=to grab]], cognate with [[grc|χανδάνω|tr=khandánō|t=to hold, grasp]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's earliest source is Varro, and Lewis & Short cite the tribunes' right of ''prēnsiō''.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Varro 116–27 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a seizing, grasping, and especially the right or power to arrest, which by ancestral custom the tribunes of the plebs had.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ The TLL lists its Romance descendants, such as French ''prison'' and Old Provençal ''preizon'', and Old French ''prisun'' “prison” comes from it, and so English ''prison'' (late Old English).^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late Old English – English ''prison'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A seizing; the right of [[m|en|arrest]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[prehēnsiō]]

+ * [[prehendō]]

+ * [[prēndō]]

+ * [[en|prison]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}