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comprehend: comprehend: see prey
compress: compress: see press
comprehend (v.): mid-14c., "to understand," from Latin comprehendere "to take together, to unite; include; seize" (of catching fire or the arrest of criminals); also "to comprehend, perceive" (to seize or take in the mind), from com- "completely" (see com-) + prehendere "to catch hold of, seize" (see prehensile). Related: Comprehended; comprehending.
comprehendible (adj.): 1814 (rare), from comprehend + -ible; a native formation alongside comprehensible.
comprehensible (adj.): 1520s, "able to be contained," from Latin comprehensibilis, from comprehensus, past participle of comphrehendere (see comprehend). Meaning "able to be understood" is from c. 1600. Related: Comprehensibly; comprehensibility.
comprehension (n.): mid-15c., from Middle French comprehénsion (15c.), from Latin comprehensionem (nominative comprehensio) "a seizing, laying hold of, arrest," figuratively "perception, comprehension," noun of action from past participle stem of comprehendere (see comprehend). In reading education, from 1921.
comprehensive (adj.): "containing much," 1610s, from French comprehénsif, from Late Latin comprehensivus, from comprehens-, past participle stem of Latin comprehendere (see comprehend). Related: Comprehensively (mid-15c.); comprehensiveness.
compress (v.): late 14c., "to press (something) together," from Old French compresser "compress, put under pressure," from Latin compressare "to press together," frequentative of comprimere "to squeeze," from com- "together" (see com-) + premere "to press" (see press (v.1)). Related: Compressed; compressing.
compress (n.): 1590s in the surgical sense, from compress (v.).
compression (n.): c. 1400, from Middle French compression (14c.), from Latin compressionem (nominative compressio) "a pressing together," noun of action from past participle stem of comprimere "to squeeze" (see compress (v.)). Related: Compressional. Compressional wave is attested from 1887.
compressor (n.): 1839, from Latin compressor, agent noun from comprimere "to squeeze" (see compress (v.)). As a type of surgical instrument, from 1870. As short for air compressor, from 1874.
decompress (v.): 1905, from de- + compress (v.). Related: Decompressed; decompressing.
decompression (n.): 1905, from de- + compression.
incomprehensibility (n.): 1640s, from French incompréhensibilité (16c.); see incomprehensible.
incomprehensible (adj.): mid-14c., from Latin incomprehensibilis, from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + comprehensibilis (see comprehensible).
incomprehensibly (adv.): early 15c., from incomprehensible + -ly (2).
incomprehension (n.): c. 1600, from in- (1) "not" + comprehension.
incomprehensive (adj.): 1650s, from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + comprehensive.
uncomprehending (adj.): 1795, from un- (1) "not" + present participle of comprehend (v.). Related: Uncomprehendingly.
uncomprehensible (adj.): late 14c., from un- (1) "not" + comprehensible. The usual word is incomprehensible.