Etymology: Origin uncertain: perhaps ultimately < a specific use of Middle French reprendre (see reprise v.), although an exact semantic match is apparently not found (perhaps compare use in 16th cent. in senses ‘to mend (a stocking, etc.)’, ‘(of a wound) to heal’).

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman prendre, prender, etc. and Middle French, French prendre (9th cent. in Old French) < classical Latin prendere , contracted form of prehendere prehend v. Compare Old Occitan prendre, penre, pendre, prener, Catalan prendre (11th cent.), Spanish prender (12th cent.), Portuguese prender (13th cent.), Italian prendere (12th cent.).