intendo
Italian
Verb
intendo
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /inˈten.doː/, [ɪn̪ˈt̪ɛn̪d̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /inˈten.do/, [in̪ˈt̪ɛn̪d̪o]
Verb
intendō (present infinitive intendere, perfect active intendī, supine intentum); third conjugation
- I stretch out, stretch, strain.
- I turn my attention to, focus (on).
- I aim, turn, direct.
- I intend to
- (Medieval Latin) I understand
- 1678, du Cange, Glossarium mediæ et infimæ latinitatis, page 387c:
- Prophetarum verba... cum magna reverentia suscipienda sunt semper, et cum discretione intendenda.
- (Medieval Latin) to hear.
- 1678, du Cange, Glossarium mediæ et infimæ latinitatis, page 387b:
- Intende mihi, intende orationi meæ, intende deprecationem meam, etc.
- (Medieval Latin) to think, believe.
- 1678, du Cange, Glossarium mediæ et infimæ latinitatis, page 387c:
- Ut nobis obediant, pareant et intendant tanquam ipsorum dominum justum.
- (Medieval Latin) to go to, travel.
- 1678, du Cange, Glossarium mediæ et infimæ latinitatis, page 387c:
- De inveniendo unum hominum ad arma, et duos sagittarios ad equitandum, et de intendendo, ad Alençon.
- (Medieval Latin with dative) I obey
Conjugation
- intēnsus occurs as a rare form of the perfect participle.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “intendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “intendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- intendo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to journey towards a place: iter aliquo dirigere, intendere
- to gaze intently all around: in omnes partes aciem (oculorum) intendere
- to direct one's attention..: cogitationem, animum in aliquid intendere (Acad. 4. 46)
- to go to law with, sue a person: litem alicui intendere
- to journey towards a place: iter aliquo dirigere, intendere
- intendo in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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- Italian non-lemma forms
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- Latin third conjugation verbs
- Latin third conjugation verbs with suffixless perfect
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook