PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
The word already meant understanding and knowledge; news and strategic information developed from that information sense, later naming the services that gather it.
/ɪnˈtɛlɪdʒəns/ · noun
Capacity for understanding, information, or the organizations that gather it; inherited through French from Latin intelligentia.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
A citation is not a vote. Each record says whether the work supports, challenges, contradicts, or contextualizes the position—and identifies the exact locus used.
Documents the historical development of intelligence, including information and intelligence-gathering senses.
Etymology and First Known UseThe reviewed evidence does not yet warrant collapsing the competing or incomplete analyses into one secure answer.