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The Learning Kingdom's Cool Word of the Day for September 8, 1999
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prison [n. PRIZ-un]
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A prison is a place where people are confined as punishment for misdeeds.
To place a person into a prison is to imprison them, and such a person is
a prisoner. A prison might also be called a jail or a penitentiary.
This word has been in use since the thirteenth century. It stems from the
Latin root prensio (a seizing), a contraction of prehendere (to seize,
arrest, take into custody). Old French altered that root, influenced by
pris (taken), resulting in the modern word prison.
Today we have several other words from prehendere, including these:
apprehend: arrest, take into custody
prehensile: able to seize, grasp, or hold
comprehend: to grasp the meaning, nature, or importance; understand
reprehensible: deserving censure or rebuke; blameworthy
prize: something taken by force (seized); to remove or extract by force
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