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
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- prehensiō Latin
- préhension French
- mesprison Old French
- prison Old French
- presó Catalan, Valencian
- fro, prisun xno
- prisoun xno
- prisun xno