intellegentia

Latin

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /in.tel.leˈɡen.ti.a/, [ɪn.tɛl.lɛˈɡɛn.ti.a]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /in.tel.leˈd͡ʒen.t͡si.a/

Etymology 1

intellegēns (understanding, discerning) + -ia (abstract noun suffix).

Noun

intellegentia f (genitive intellegentiae); first declension

  1. intelligence, the power of discernment
  2. understanding, knowledge
  3. taste, skill, the capacity to be a connoisseur
Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative intellegentia intellegentiae
Genitive intellegentiae intellegentiārum
Dative intellegentiae intellegentiīs
Accusative intellegentiam intellegentiās
Ablative intellegentiā intellegentiīs
Vocative intellegentia intellegentiae
Descendants

From the alternative form intelligentia:

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Participle

intellegentia

  1. nominative neuter plural of intellegēns
  2. accusative neuter plural of intellegēns
  3. 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
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