prehensus

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

    Perfect passive participle of prehendō.

    Pronunciation

    Participle

    prehēnsus (feminine prehēnsa, neuter prehēnsum); first/second-declension participle

    1. seized, grasped, grabbed, taken, caught; having been seized, etc.
      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.592–593:
        “[...] dextrāque prehēnsum / continuit [...].”
        “she caught [me] by the hand and held [me] back”
        (Venus intervenes just as Aeneas reaches for his sword.)
    2. detained, accosted, caught hold of
    3. taken by surprise

    Declension

    First/second-declension adjective.

    Descendants

    • Balkan Romance:
      • Romanian: prins
    • Italo-Romance:
    • Padanian:
      • Piedmontese: prèis, prais (rennet)
    • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Ibero-Romance:
    • Vulgar Latin: *prensura (rennet)
      • Italo-Romance:
      • Padanian:
        • Emilian: presur, parzur
        • Piedmontese: përzura preisur
      • Northern Gallo-Romance:
      • Southern Gallo-Romance:

    References

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

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