intellectualis
Latin
Etymology
From intellēctus (“understanding”) + -ālis.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɪn.tɛl.leːk.tuˈaː.lɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [in̪.t̪el.lek.t̪uˈaː.lis]
Adjective
intellēctuālis (neuter intellēctuāle); third-declension two-termination adjective
- intellectual (of the mind, or of understanding)
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | intellēctuālis | intellēctuāle | intellēctuālēs | intellēctuālia | |
| genitive | intellēctuālis | intellēctuālium | |||
| dative | intellēctuālī | intellēctuālibus | |||
| accusative | intellēctuālem | intellēctuāle | intellēctuālēs intellēctuālīs |
intellēctuālia | |
| ablative | intellēctuālī | intellēctuālibus | |||
| vocative | intellēctuālis | intellēctuāle | intellēctuālēs | intellēctuālia | |
Descendants
- → Catalan: intel·lectual
- → French: intellectuel
- → Friulian: inteletuâl
- → Galician: intelectual
- → Italian: intellettuale
- → Occitan: intellectual, intellectuau
- → Piedmontese: inteletual
- → Portuguese: intelectual
- → Romanian: intelectual
- → Spanish: intelectual
References
- “intellectualis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- intellectualis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.