intellegentia Latin · revision 33730

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=190–159 BC, Terence|origins=ine-pro *leǵ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪn.tɛl.lɛˈɡɛn.ti.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [in.tel.leˈd͡ʒɛn.t͡si.a]^(Wiktionary)

+

+ ==Forms==

+ '''intellegentia''' ''f'' (genitive intellegentiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Also ''intelligentia''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|intellegēns|-ia|t1=understanding]],^(OLD 2012) from [[m|la|intellegō|t=to understand]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) De Vaan takes ⟨intel-legere⟩ as a fairly recent compound with [[m|la|legō#2|t=to gather]], which goes back to [[itc-pro|*lege-]] and [[ine-pro|*leǵ-|t=to collect]];^(de Vaan 2008) cognate with [[grc|λέγω|tr=légō|t=to gather, count; speak]].^(de Vaan 2008) Sidonius already derived it from [[m|la|intellegō]].^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Terence's ''Hecyra'' has it first in the OLD, in the prologue's hope that the audience's intelligence will calm the calamity,^(OLD 2012) and Varro has it in his ''Menippean Satires''.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates it from Cicero.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Cicero uses it often:^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) he defines it as the part of prudence by which the mind sees what is,^(OLD 2012) and uses it for the faculty of understanding,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) the degree of understanding of ordinary people,^(OLD 2012) cleverness,^(OLD 2012) and an expert's understanding or taste, as in the ''Verrines'', “intelligence, not greed”.^(OLD 2012) He also makes it an idea or notion, rendering [[grc|ἔννοια|tr=énnoia]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Ulpian uses it for understanding of a language, and Justin for the art of interpreting dreams.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Church Latin has knowledge, understanding, intelligence, discernment and judgement.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence, of the audience's intelligence.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro, of the mind's understanding.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, as a faculty of the mind and as a notion.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian, of understanding a language.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 431–486 AD – Sidonius derives it from ''intellegere''.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The faculty of discerning or [[m|en|understanding]], comprehension.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A degree of understanding.^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|intelligence|alt=Intelligence]], cleverness.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Understanding in a special field, [[m|en|discernment]], [[m|en|taste]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Wiktionary)

+ # An idea, [[m|en|concept]], notion.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[intellēctus]]

+ * [[intellegēns]]

+ * [[intellegō]]

+ * [[legō#2]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}