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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la prehendō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ap.preˈ(ɦ)ɛn.doː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ap.preˈɛn.do]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''apprehendō''' (present infinitive apprehendere, perfect active apprehendī, supine apprehēnsum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)
+ It is also spelled ''adprehendō'' and contracted ''apprendō'', as in Plautus and Caecilius.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[ad-]] and [[prehendō]] “to seize”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The contracted form appears in Plautus and Caecilius.^(OLD 2012) The OLD's earliest citations for the senses are from Cicero, and Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to lay hold of, grasp, seize, and to gain possession, and to take up a subject for discussion, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012) In law it meant to include in a provision.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to take hold of, seize, apprehend, embrace.^(Stelten 1995) Its contracted form survives as French ''apprendre'', Spanish and Portuguese ''aprender'' “to learn”, and French ''appris'' gave [[en|apprise]], and the Latin gave [[en|apprehend]] in the late 14th century, first “to grasp with the senses or mind”.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses the contracted form.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of seizing and taking up.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * late 14th century – English ''apprehend'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To grasp, seize.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To gain possession of.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To take up (a subject).^(OLD 2012)
+ # To include.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' To [[m|en|apprehend]]; to embrace.^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[apprehensibilis]]
+ * [[apprehēnsiō]]
+ * [[apprēnsō]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[comprehendō]]
+ * [[dēprehendō]]
+ * [[prehendō]]
+ * [[reprehendō]]
+ * [[en|apprehend]]
+ * [[en|apprise]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}