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The story

Borrowed from French appris, apprise, the past participle form of apprendre (‘to learn; to teach’), from Middle French apprendre, aprendre (‘to learn’), from Old French aprendre, aprandre (‘to learn; to educate, teach’), from Latin apprēndere, a variant of apprehendere, adprehendere, the present active infinitives of apprehendō, adprehendō (‘to lay hold upon, grab, grasp, seize, take; to apprehend, arrest; to grasp with the mind, comprehend, understand; (Medieval Latin) to learn; to inform; to teach’), from ad- (prefix meaning ‘to; towards’) + prehendō (‘to lay hold of, grab, grasp, seize, take; (figuratively, rare) of the mind: to apprehend, comprehend, grasp, seize’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (‘to find; to hold; to seize, take’)).