intellectio

Latin

Etymology

From intellegō +‎ -tiō. Compare interlēctiō (“a reading between, reading together”).

Noun

intellēctiō f (genitive intellēctiōnis); third declension

1. understanding, realization
2. synecdoche

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	intellēctiō	intellēctiōnēs
genitive	intellēctiōnis	intellēctiōnum
dative	intellēctiōnī	intellēctiōnibus
accusative	intellēctiōnem	intellēctiōnēs
ablative	intellēctiōne	intellēctiōnibus
vocative	intellēctiō	intellēctiōnēs

Descendants

• English: intellection
• Italian: intellezione
• Portuguese: inteleção
• Romanian: înțelepciune
• Spanish: intelección

References

• “intellectio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “intellectio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.