intellectus

Latin

Etymology

From intellegō (“I understand; perceive”).

Noun

intellēctus m (genitive intellēctūs); fourth declension

1. comprehension, understanding
2. meaning, sense
3. intellect
4. reason, discerning

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	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
• → Piedmontese: intelet
• → Portuguese: intelecto
• → Polish: intelekt
• → Romanian: intelect
• → Russian: интеллект (intellekt)
• → Spanish: intelecto

Participle

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

1. having been understood, realised.
2. having been perceived, discerned.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	intellēctus	intellēcta	intellēctum		intellēctī	intellēctae	intellēcta
Genitive	intellēctī	intellēctae	intellēctī		intellēctōrum	intellēctārum	intellēctōrum
Dative	intellēctō		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

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’s 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