prensio

Contracted form of prehēnsiō. Equivalent to prēndō +‎ -tiō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpren.si.oː/, [ˈprẽːs̠ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpren.si.o/, [ˈprɛnsio]

prēnsiō f (genitive prēnsiōnis); third declension

1. Alternative form of prehēnsiō (“an act of seizing; grasping; taking hold”)
2. Alternative form of prehēnsiō (“the power to seize or arrest”)

   Tribunos plebis prensionem habere, vocationem non habere. ― That the tribunes of the commons have the right to arrest, but not to summon. A. Cornelius Gellius, Noctes Atticae (Attic Nights), Liber XIII, transl. J. C. Rolfe.

Third-declension noun.

• “prensio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• prensio in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• prensio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.