Etymology

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Today it means: do you understand? Full definition →

Spanish comprender ← Italian comprendere
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The story

  1. Italian · borrowed fromcomprendere
  2. Spanish · borrowed fromcomprender“to understand”
  3. English todaycomprendo

From the Spanish comprender (“to understand”) and Italian comprendere. The word in fact means "I understand".

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.