Origin: Latin suffix -ible
Reprehensible has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
A reprehensible person; a villain.
bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
"a criminal waste of talent"
"a deplorable act of violence"
"adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife"
Blameworthy, censurable, guilty.
Reprehensible comes from the Late Latin word reprehensibilis, which is derived from the verb reprehendo. It originally combined the meaning of "to blame" or "check" with a suffix indicating capability, essentially meaning something that can be blamed.