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Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
intellegēns (“understanding, discerning”) + -ia (abstract noun suffix).
Alternative forms
Noun
intellegentia f (genitive intellegentiae); first declension
- intelligence, the power of discernment
- understanding, knowledge
- taste, skill, the capacity to be a connoisseur
Declension
First-declension noun.
Related terms
Descendants
From the alternative form intelligentia:
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
intellegentia
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of intellegēns
References
- “intellegentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “intellegentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- intellegentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to accommodate something to the standard of the popular intelligence: ad intellegentiam communem or popularem accommodare aliquid
- vague, undeveloped ideas: intellegentiae adumbratae or incohatae (De Leg. 1. 22. 59)
- (ambiguous) to possess great ability: intellegentia or mente multum valere