inteligência

See also: inteligencia

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• intelligencia, intelligência (pre-standardization spelling)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin intellegēns

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Latin intellegentialbor.

Portuguese inteligência

Learned borrowing from Latin intellegentia (“intelligence”). Doublet of intelligentsia.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.te.liˈʒẽ.si.ɐ/ [ĩ.te.liˈʒẽ.sɪ.ɐ], (faster pronunciation) /ĩ.te.liˈʒẽ.sjɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.te.liˈʒẽ.si.ɐ/ [ĩ.te.liˈʒẽ.sɪ.ɐ], (faster pronunciation) /ĩ.te.liˈʒẽ.sjɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.te.liˈʒẽ.si.a/ [ĩ.te.liˈʒẽ.sɪ.a], (faster pronunciation) /ĩ.te.liˈʒẽ.sja/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tɨ.liˈʒẽ.sjɐ/

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

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• Hyphenation: in‧te‧li‧gên‧ci‧a

Noun

inteligência f (usually uncountable, plural inteligências)

1. intelligence (capacity of mind)

   Synonyms: intelecto, discernimento, juízo, entendimento

   Antonyms: burrice, estupidez

2. (military, espionage) intelligence; intel (secret information about the enemy)
3. intelligence agency (governmental agency devoted to gathering information for national security)
4. (politics) intelligentsia (the intellectual elite of a society, particularly in Marxist doctrine)

   Synonym: intelligentsia

Derived terms

• contrainteligência
• inteligência artificial

Related terms

• inteligente
• inteligibilidade
• inteligível

Further reading

• “inteligência”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026