Rustom Mody writes: > [ My conjecture: The word ‘comprehension’ used this way in English is > meaningless and is probably an infelicious translation of something > which makes sense in German]
From a Latin word for "taking together", through Middle French, according to this source, which has further details: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/comprehension https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/comprehensio#Latin https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/comprehendo#Latin -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
