Translation
intelligence (the quality), cleverness
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Word origin
Built on the international root inteligent-, from Latin intelligere, to understand, literally to read between (inter plus legere). The ending is Esperanto's own.
- Origin
- Latin, with an Esperanto suffix
- Root
- intelligere
- English cognates
- intelligence, intellect, legible
Examples
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His intelligence is obvious to everyone.
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Intelligence without work gives nothing.
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The test measures only one kind of intelligence.
is a genuine build and a clean one: inteligenta, the adjective, plus -ec-, the suffix that turns a quality into a thing you can talk about. Intelligent -> intelligent-ness.
-- is one of the workhorses of the language and it costs nothing to learn, because it takes any adjective at all: -> o (goodness), -> (freedom), -> o (warmth), -> o (humanity, the quality). English needs -ness, -ity, -, -hood and -th for the same job and cannot tell you which one a given adjective takes. Esperanto has one answer and it is always right.
Do not confuse it with --, which makes a concrete thing rather than a quality: o is goodness, o is a good deed. The test is whether you could point at it.
One sense only. English "intelligence" also means gathered secret information - military intelligence, an intelligence service. does not carry that at all. The spying sense is o or . Keep for the quality in somebody's head.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 22, lesson 10: inteligenteco, ŝelo, pilolo and 7 more words.