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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /inˈtɛn.do/
  • Rhymes: -ɛndo
  • Hyphenation: in‧tèn‧do

Verb

intendo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of intendere

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Latin

Etymology

From in- +‎ tendō.

Pronunciation

Verb

intendō (present infinitive intendere, perfect active intendī, supine intentum or intensum); third conjugation

  1. to stretch out; to strain
  2. to turn one's attention to, focus (on)
    Synonyms: attendō, advertō, animadvertō, adversō
  3. to aim, turn, direct
  4. to intend to, aim, seek
    Synonyms: dēstinō, tendō, petō, quaerō, affectō, studeō, spectō, quaesō, circumspiciō
    Antonyms: āversor, abhorreō, dēclīnō
  5. (Medieval Latin) to understand
  6. (Medieval Latin) to hear
  7. (Medieval Latin) to think, believe
  8. (Medieval Latin) to go to, travel
  9. (Medieval Latin with dative) to obey

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References

  • intendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • intendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • intendo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • intendere in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to journey towards a place: iter aliquo dirigere, intendere
    • to gaze intently all around: in omnes partes aciem (oculorum) intendere
    • to direct one's attention..: cogitationem, animum in aliquid intendere (Acad. 4. 46)
    • to go to law with, sue a person: litem alicui intendere
  • intendo in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016