intellectus

Latin

Etymology 1

From intellegō (“to understand; perceive”).

Participle

intellēctus (feminine intellēcta, neuter intellēctum); first/second-declension participle

1. understood; realized
2. perceived; discerned

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	intellēctus	intellēcta	intellēctum		intellēctī	intellēctae	intellēcta
genitive	intellēctī	intellēctae	intellēctī		intellēctōrum	intellēctārum	intellēctōrum
dative	intellēctō	intellēctae	intellēctō		intellēctīs
accusative	intellēctum	intellēctam	intellēctum		intellēctōs	intellēctās	intellēcta
ablative	intellēctō	intellēctā	intellēctō		intellēctīs
vocative	intellēcte	intellēcta	intellēctum		intellēctī	intellēctae	intellēcta

Descendants

• Aromanian: ntsileptu
• Romanian: înțelept

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Indo-European *-tér

Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér

Proto-Italic *n̥ter

Latin inter

Latin inter-

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *léǵeti

Proto-Italic *legō

Latin legō?

Proto-Indo-European *h₂leg-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *h₂légeti

Proto-Italic *legō?

Latin intellegō

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus

Latin intellēctus

From intellegō + -tus (forming action nouns).

Noun

intellēctus m (genitive intellēctūs); fourth declension

1. comprehension, understanding
   • Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, Mattheum 15:16:

     At ille dixit: Adhuc et vos sine intellectu estis?

     And he said: Are ye also yet without understanding?

2. meaning, sense
3. intellect
4. reason, discerning

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	intellēctus	intellēctūs
genitive	intellēctūs	intellēctuum
dative	intellēctuī	intellēctibus
accusative	intellēctum	intellēctūs
ablative	intellēctū	intellēctibus
vocative	intellēctus	intellēctūs

Derived terms

• intellēctuālis

Descendants

• → Dutch: intellect
• → English: intellect
• → French: intellect
• → Friulian: intelet
• → Italian: intelletto
• → Ladin: ntelet
• → Old Irish: intliucht, intṡliucht
  • Middle Irish: intlecht
    • Irish: intleacht
• → Piedmontese: intelet
• → Portuguese: intelecto
• → Polish: intelekt
• → Romanian: intelect
• → Russian: интеллект (intellekt)
• → Spanish: intelecto

References

• “intellectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “intellectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "intellectus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “intellectus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Jim Butcher (1971), The Dresden files, Turn Coat