intellego

• intelligō

From inter (“between”) +‎ legō (“to select”), or from inter- +‎ Proto-Italic *legō (“to care”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /inˈtel.le.ɡoː/, [ɪn̪ˈt̪ɛlːʲɛɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈtel.le.ɡo/, [in̪ˈt̪ɛlːeɡo]

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

1. to understand, comprehend, realize, come to know

   Synonym: tongeō

   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations‎:

     , 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. to perceive, discern, see, observe, recognise; feel, notice

   Synonyms: agnōscō, cognōscō, inveniō, sentiō, cōnsciō, sapiō, sciō, nōscō, scīscō, percipiō, discernō, tongeō, cernō, audiō

   Antonyms: ignōrō, nesciō

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• 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)

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: ntsileg, ntsilegu, ntsãleg, ntsãlegu
  • Romanian: înțelege
  • → Proto-Albanian: *intellegɔnjœ
    • Old Albanian: ëndiglonj
      • Albanian: dëgjoj, digjoj; ndëgjoj, ndëgoj, dëlgoj, dëlgonj, diligonj, ngjoj; ndigoj, ngoj; endiglo; ëndiglonj
• Italo-Western Romance:
  • Old French: entelgir (10th c. Fragment de Valenciennes), entillier, antillier (Judeo-French)
    • Middle French: entiller
  • Romansch: encleger, entelgir, antalir, incleger
  • → Basque: indelgatu, entelegatu
• Learned borrowings:
  • → Dalmatian: inteliguar
  • → Portuguese: inteligir
  • → Spanish: inteligir

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “ĭntĕllĕgĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 739

• “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, 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