•to arrest (to take into legal custody) [with accusative ‘whom’] · to sequester (to cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.)
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese prender, from Latin prēndere, variant of prehendere (“to seize; to detain”), from prae- (“before”) + *hendō (“to take, to seize”) (not attested without prefix), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed-.
köken: Compound of 閉じ (toji, “closing, shutting”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 閉じる tojiru, “to close, to shut”) + 込める (komeru, “to put (into), to force (into)”).