intellego
Latin
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[edit]Etymology
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Most likely from inter (“between”) + legō (“to gather, select, choose”), as in “to discern among” or “to understand”. Another hypothesis suggests that the second component is from the unrelated Proto-Italic *legō (“to care”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɪnˈtɛl.lɛ.ɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [inˈtɛl.le.ɡo]
Verb
[edit]intellegō (present infinitive intellegere, perfect active intellēxī, supine intellēctum); third conjugation
- to understand, comprehend, realize, come to know
- Synonym: tongeō
- 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 17:
- Faciuntne intellegendō ut nīl intellegant?
- Is this what they accomplish by learning — that they come to know nothing?
- Faciuntne intellegendō ut nīl intellegant?
- 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations[1]:, 1.2
- O tempora, o mores! Senatus haec intellegit, consul videt; hic tamen vivit. Vivit?
- Shame on the age and on its principles! The senate is aware of these things; the consul sees them; and yet this man lives. Lives!
- O tempora, o mores! Senatus haec intellegit, consul videt; hic tamen vivit. Vivit?
- to perceive, discern, see, observe, recognise; feel, notice
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of intellegō (third conjugation)
- Note: Perfect subjunctive sometimes of the form intellēg... rather than intellēx...
- Additional forms are:
- indicative perfect: intellēxtī (instead of intellēxistī)
- indicative perfect: intellēgit (instead of intellēxit)
- conjunctive perfect: intellēgerint (instead of intellēxerint)
- conjunctive pluperfect: intellēxēs (instead of intellēxissēs)
Derived terms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Balkano-Romance:
- Italo-Western Romance:
- Learned borrowings:
- → Italian: intelligere, intelligire
- → Portuguese: inteligir
- → Sicilian: ntiḍḍèjiri, ntillèggiri
- → Spanish: inteligir
References
[edit]- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “ĭntĕllĕgĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 739
Further reading
[edit]- “intellego”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “intellego”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “intellego”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- not to understand a single word: verbum prorsus nullum intellegere
- what do we understand by 'a wise man': quem intellegimus sapientem?
- what do we mean by 'virtue': quae intellegitur virtus
- that is self-evident, goes without saying: hoc facile intellegi potest
- that is self-evident, goes without saying: hoc per se intellegitur
- from this it appears, is apparent: ex quo intellegitur or intellegi potest, debet
- not to understand a single word: verbum prorsus nullum intellegere
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂leg-
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms prefixed with inter-
- Latin compound terms
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *leǵ-
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₁én
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₁entér
- Latin 4-syllable words
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- Latin third conjugation verbs
- Latin third conjugation verbs with perfect in -s- or -x-
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