intellegens

Latin

Alternative forms

• intelligēns

Etymology

Present active participle of intellegō (“I understand; perceive”).

Participle

intellegēns (genitive intellegentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. understanding, realising.
2. perceiving, discerning.

Declension

Third-declension participle.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	intellegēns			intellegentēs	intellegentia
genitive	intellegentis			intellegentium
dative	intellegentī			intellegentibus
accusative	intellegentem	intellegēns		intellegentēs intellegentīs	intellegentia
ablative	intellegente intellegentī1			intellegentibus
vocative	intellegēns			intellegentēs	intellegentia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

References

• “intellegens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “intellegens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• intellegens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a connoisseur; a specialist: (artis, artium) intellegens, peritus (opp. idiota, a layman)
    
  • a (competent, intelligent, subtle) critic: existimator (doctus, intellegens, acerrimus)
    
  • good taste; delicate perception: iudicium subtile, elegans, exquisitum, intellegens
    
  • (ambiguous) to possess great ability: intellegentia or mente multum valere