intendo
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /inˈtɛn.do/
- Rhymes: -ɛndo
- Hyphenation: in‧tèn‧do
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /inˈten.doː/, [ɪn̪ˈt̪ɛn̪d̪oː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /inˈten.do/, [in̪ˈt̪ɛn̪d̪o]
Verb
intendō (present infinitive intendere, perfect active intendī, supine intentum); third conjugation
- I stretch out; I strain
- I turn my attention to, focus (on)
- Synonyms: attendō, advertō, animadvertō, adversō
- I aim, turn, direct
- I intend to, aim, seek
- (Medieval Latin) I understand
- (Medieval Latin) I hear
- (Medieval Latin) I think, believe
- (Medieval Latin) I go to, travel
- (Medieval Latin with dative) I obey
Conjugation
- intēnsus occurs as a rare form of the perfect participle.
Descendants
- Aromanian: ntindu, ãntindu, ntindiri
- Asturian: entender
- Catalan: entendre
- Franco-Provençal: entendre
- Friulian: intindi
- Galician: entender
- → German: intendieren
- Italian: intèndere
- Occitan: entendre
- Old French: entendre
- Portuguese: entender, intender
- Romanian: întinde, întindere
- Sardinian: intèndhere, intendi, intèndiri, intènnere
- Sicilian: ntènniri
- Spanish: entender, intender
- Venetian: intender, intendar
References
- “intendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “intendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- intendo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- intendere in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to journey towards a place: iter aliquo dirigere, intendere
- to gaze intently all around: in omnes partes aciem (oculorum) intendere
- to direct one's attention..: cogitationem, animum in aliquid intendere (Acad. 4. 46)
- to go to law with, sue a person: litem alicui intendere
- to journey towards a place: iter aliquo dirigere, intendere
- intendo in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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