preensão

Portuguese

noun
Definitions
  • (physiology) grip; prehension the ability to hold things with one’s hand

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prehensiō (apprehend, capturing, capture, apprehending, arrest, action of taking, I seize, seizing, arresting).

Origin

Latin

prehensiō

Gloss

apprehend, capturing, capture, apprehending, arrest, action of taking, I seize, seizing, arresting

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