prehensusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Perfect passive participle of prehendō.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /preˈhen.sus/, [preˈ(ɦ)ẽːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /preˈen.sus/, [preˈɛnsus]

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

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

派生した語

参照

• “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.