Latin

Alternative forms

• intelligō

Verb

intellegō ‎(present infinitive intellegere, perfect active intellēxī, supine intellēctum); third conjugation

1. I understand, comprehend, realize, come to know.
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations (Latin text and English translations here), 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!

2. I perceive, discern, see, observe, recognise; feel, notice.

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Descendants

• Albanian: ndëgjoj, dëgjoj
• Aromanian: ntsileg, ntsileadziri
• Romanian: înțelege, înțelegere
• Romansch: encleger, entelgir, antalir, incleger

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “intellego”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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