NODE / 0084attestedLatin
intellegere / intelligere
to understand, perceive, discern
- DATE
- Latin antiquity
- SENSE
- default
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Italic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:9:intellegere intelligere:attested
Traditionally analyzed with inter- and legere.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERderivationprobable
Latin · Latin antiquitylegere
to gather, select, choose; to read
- SOUND
- Latin intellegere is traditionally analyzed as inter- plus legere, with phonological assimilation.
- MEANING
- Selecting or discerning among becomes understanding; the exact semantic bridge should not be over-literalized.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster · Latin lexicography
- CONFIDENCE
- probable — The morphology is strong; a slogan such as “choose between” is not a full semantic history.
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
03TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE
EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE
This is the complete downstream closure currently supported by the canonical graph. Every displayed step is a real reviewed edge with its own sound claim, meaning claim, scholar, confidence, and citations.
- UNIQUE DESCENDANT NODES
- 8
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 8
- DEEPEST PATH
- 4
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 3
HISTORICAL STEP 012 EDGES
STEP 01inflectionestablished
- SOUND
- intelligēns is the present participial formation of intellegere / intelligere.
- MEANING
- The one understanding supplies the adjective and abstract noun family.
STEP 01derivationestablished
- SOUND
- Latin intellectus is the action noun and participial formation of intellegere.
- MEANING
- The act of perceiving or understanding becomes the faculty or product of understanding.
Merriam-Webster · American Heritage editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 382 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 023 EDGES
STEP 02derivationestablished
- SOUND
- The abstract noun intelligentia is formed on the participial stem intelligent-.
- MEANING
- A discerning or understanding quality becomes an abstract capacity.
STEP 02borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Old French intellecte was borrowed from Latin intellectus with Romance spelling and pronunciation.
- MEANING
- Latin perception and understanding remain the core meaning.
STEP 02borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- English intelligent adapts the Latin participial stem intelligent- with English stress, vowel, and final-consonant treatment.
- MEANING
- Latin understanding and discernment become the English adjective for mental capacity, judgment, and later computer-guided behavior.
Merriam-Webster · American Heritage editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 402 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 032 EDGES
STEP 03borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- French transmitted Latin intelligentia.
- MEANING
- Understanding and discernment remain central.
STEP 03borrowingprobable
- SOUND
- English intellect continues a medieval French or directly Latin learned form; this dossier displays the published Old French route.
- MEANING
- Perception and understanding become the modern capacity for knowing and reasoning.
Merriam-Webster · American Heritage editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 380 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 041 EDGE
STEP 04borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- English borrowed the French abstract noun with later pronunciation change.
- MEANING
- Understanding expands into news, strategic information, and the organizations that obtain it.
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04RECORDED EVIDENCE
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05EDITORIAL REUSE
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