intellectualis

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin intellēctus

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin intellēctuālis

From intellēctus (“understanding”) + -ālis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪn.tɛl.leːk.tuˈaː.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [in.tel.lek.tuˈaː.lis]

Adjective

intellēctuālis (neuter intellēctuāle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. intellectual (of the mind, or of understanding)

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	intellēctuālis	intellēctuāle		intellēctuālēs	intellēctuālia
genitive	intellēctuālis			intellēctuālium
dative	intellēctuālī			intellēctuālibus
accusative	intellēctuālem	intellēctuāle		intellēctuālīs intellēctuālēs	intellēctuālia
ablative	intellēctuālī			intellēctuālibus
vocative	intellēctuālis	intellēctuāle		intellēctuālēs	intellēctuālia

Descendants

• → Catalan: intel·lectual
• → French: intellectuel
• → Friulian: inteletuâl
• → Galician: intelectual
• → Italian: intellettuale
• → Occitan: intellectual, intellectuau
• → Piedmontese: inteletual
• → Portuguese: intelectual
• → Romanian: intelectual
• → Spanish: intelectual

References

• “intellectualis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “intellectualis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.