Etymology

prender

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Today it means: The power or right of taking a thing before it is offered Full definition →

French prendre ← Latin prehendere
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromprehendere“to take”
  2. French · borrowed fromprendre“to take”
  3. English todayprender

Borrowed from French prendre (“to take”), from Latin prehendere (“to take”).

Words from the same roots

Latinprehendere all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.