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"Interestingly, prehendere is related to the Greek word for a vine, presumably due to the clingy nature of the plant..."
And, if one supposes that we are talking about 'grape' vines, then I finally comprehend what milum was talking about as his 'Catalyst of Inspiration'....
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And, if one supposes that we are talking about 'grape' vines, then I finally comprehend what milum was talking about as his 'Catalyst of Inspiration'....
Quite so. We could become comprehensively inspired once we had finished off all the wine.Really, who can match the delightful wordplay of "apprehensile"? I'm just swimming in its wake.
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Interestingly, prehendere is related to the Greek word for a vineAHD traces prehendere back to the IE ghend- ( http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE159.html). Nary a word about nothin Greek. What's the word, Alex?
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Alex must have taken milum's advice and found enlightenment in a 16 oz tumbler  Everything was Greek to him then, even the fickle finger of Fate 
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In Alex's defense, the AHD IE root section does only cite words what made it into English.
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think the various nature of these words has to do with the versatility of the root form that means to seize, prehendere
Indeed Alex, 'prehendere' seems to be at the root of this confusion. The other such word that immediately springs to mind is 'Reprehend'. Both this word and its adjective, reprehensible, do not seem to have any logical connection at all to their etymological derivation. Oh dear, seems like another thread is intent on interweaving with this. 
If there is someone who is a Latin buff on this board, maybe he/she can help with a comprehensive understanding of the reach of the root, 'Prehendere'.
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Incidentally, I found one site on the internet that reports that the use of apprehensive [to mean] "anticipative of something adverse" [was] first recorded 1633.
I have been trying to follow the links from yesterday when I was looking up the word, but so far I can't find the one about "vine." I'll keep looking later.
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