intellego
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
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(deprecated template usage) From inter- (“between”) + legō (“choose; read”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /inˈtel.le.ɡoː/, [ɪn̪ˈt̪ɛlːʲɛɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /inˈtel.le.ɡo/, [in̪ˈt̪ɛlːeɡo]
Verb
intellegō (present infinitive intellegere, perfect active intellēxī, supine intellēctum); third conjugation
- I understand, comprehend, realize, come to know.
- 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?
- I perceive, discern, see, observe, recognise; feel, notice.
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
Related terms
Descendants
- Eastern Romance:
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Western Iberian:
References
- “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