intelecto
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin intellēctus, from Latin intellegō.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ĩ.teˈlɛ.ki.tu/, /ĩ.teˈlɛk.tu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ĩ.teˈlɛk.to/, /ĩ.teˈlɛ.ki.to/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ĩ.tɨˈlɛ.ktu/
- Hyphenation: in‧te‧lec‧to
Noun
intelecto m (plural intelectos)
- brain (intellect)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin intellēctus, from Latin intellegō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /inteˈleɡto/ [ĩn̪.t̪eˈleɣ̞.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -eɡto
- Syllabification: in‧te‧lec‧to
Noun
intelecto m (plural intelectos)
- (uncountable) intellect (faculty of knowing, reasoning, and understanding in general)
- (countable) intellect (of a person in particular)
Related terms
Further reading
- “intelecto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024