intellego

• intelligō

From inter (“between”) +‎ legō (“to select”), or from inter- +‎ Proto-Italic *legō (“to care”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪnˈtɛl.lɛ.ɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [in̪ˈt̪ɛl.le.ɡo]

intellegō (present infinitive intellegere, perfect active intellēxī, supine intellēctum); third conjugation

1. to understand, comprehend, realize, come to know

   Synonym: tongeō

   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 17:

     Faciuntne intellegendō ut nīl intellegant?

     Is this what they accomplish by learning — that they come to know nothing?

   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations‎^[1]:
     , 1.2

     O tempora, o mores! Senatus haec intellegit, consul videt; hic tamen vivit. Vivit?

     Shame on the age and on its principles! The senate is aware of these things; the consul sees them; and yet this man lives. Lives!

2. to perceive, discern, see, observe, recognise; feel, notice

   Synonyms: agnōscō, cognōscō, inveniō, sentiō, cōnsciō, sapiō, sciō, nōscō, scīscō, percipiō, discernō, tongeō, cernō, audiō

   Antonyms: ignōrō, nesciō

• Note: Perfect subjunctive sometimes of the form intellēg... rather than intellēx...
• Additional forms are:
  • indicative perfect: intellēxtī (instead of intellēxistī)
  • indicative perfect: intellēgit (instead of intellēxit)
  • conjunctive perfect: intellēgerint (instead of intellēxerint)
  • conjunctive pluperfect: intellēxēs (instead of intellēxissēs)

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “ĭntĕllĕgĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 739

• “intellego”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “intellego”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• intellego in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • not to understand a single word: verbum prorsus nullum intellegere
    
  • what do we understand by 'a wise man': quem intellegimus sapientem?
    
  • what do we mean by 'virtue': quae intellegitur virtus
    
  • that is self-evident, goes without saying: hoc facile intellegi potest
    
  • that is self-evident, goes without saying: hoc per se intellegitur
    
  • from this it appears, is apparent: ex quo intellegitur or intellegi potest, debet