prensio

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

prensĭo, ōnis, f. [prendo],

a seizing , grasping , taking hold of : quoniam moribus majorum tribuni plebis prensionem haberent, had the right or office of seizure , Att. Cap. ap. Gell. 12, 12, 4; 6.