English intelligent adapts the Latin participial stem intelligent- with English stress, vowel, and final-consonant treatment.
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intelligent
having or showing understanding, judgment, or mental capacity; later also computer-guided
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PARENT / EARLIER FORM / attestedLatin · Latin antiquityintelligēns
understanding, discerning
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Latin understanding and discernment become the English adjective for mental capacity, judgment, and later computer-guided behavior.
Merriam-Webster reports first known English use circa 1540.
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supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Documents direct Latin participial ancestry and circa-1540 English use.
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supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Independently documents the Latin participle and the understanding and judgment senses.
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