different between comprehend vs comprehender

English

Etymology

From Middle English comprehenden, from Latin comprehendere (“to grasp”), from the prefix com- + prehendere (“to seize”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?mp???h?nd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k?mp???h?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Verb

comprehend (third-person singular simple present comprehends, present participle comprehending, simple past and past participle comprehended)

1. (now rare) To include, comprise; to contain. [from 14th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.1:

     And lothly mouth, unmeete a mouth to bee, / That nought but gall and venim comprehended […].

   • 1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Penguin 2009, p. 9:

     In the second century of the Christian Æra, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.

2. To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly. [from 14th c.]

Related terms

Translations

French

Verb

comprehend

1. third-person singular present indicative of comprehendre

English

Etymology

comprehend +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)

Noun

comprehender (plural comprehenders)

1. Agent noun of comprehend: one who comprehends.
   • 2005, Margaret J. Snowling, Charles Hulme, The Science of Reading: A Handbook, p. 232:

     Less-skilled comprehenders do not know when it is appropriate to draw inferences.

   • 1989, Hans-Wilhelm Dechert, Manfred Raupach, Interlingual Processes, p. 138:

     This mental representation provides the comprehender with a general plan according to which he can organize, interrelate and memorize the incoming information.

   • 1908, Paul Deussen, The Philosophy of the Upanishads, p. 169:

     There is no seer beside him, no hearer beside him, no comprehender beside him, no knower beside him.

Synonyms

• comprehensor (obsolete)

Translations

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin comprehendo, comprehendere.

Verb

comprehender

1. to teach
2. to understand; to comprehend
   • Premier Volume des Exposées des Épistoles:

     Les ministres des juifz comprehenderent Jesus Christ

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-d, *-ds, *-dt are modified to t, z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (comprehender)

Portuguese

Verb

comprehender (first-person singular present indicative comprehendo, past participle comprehendido)

1. Obsolete form of compreender.
2. First-person singular (eu) future subjunctive of comprehender
3. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) future subjunctive of comprehender
4. First-person singular (eu) personal infinitive of comprehender
5. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) personal infinitive of comprehender

Conjugation

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin comprehendere, present active infinitive of comprehend?. See the inherited form comprender.

Verb

comprehender (first-person singular present comprehendo, first-person singular preterite comprehendí, past participle comprehendido)

1. Obsolete spelling of comprender

Conjugation