intendo

intendo

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /inˈtɛn.do/
  • Rhymes: -ɛndo
  • Hyphenation: in‧tèn‧do

Verb

intendo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of intendere

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

    From in- + tendō.

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    intendō (present infinitive intendere, perfect active intendī, supine intentum or intensum); third conjugation

    1. to stretch out; to strain
    2. to turn one's attention to, focus (on)
      Synonyms: attendō, advertō, animadvertō, adversō
    3. to aim, turn, direct
    4. to intend to, aim, seek
      Synonyms: dēstinō, tendō, petō, quaerō, affectō, studeō, spectō, quaesō, circumspiciō
      Antonyms: āversor, abhorreō, dēclīnō
    5. (Medieval Latin) to understand
    6. (Medieval Latin) to hear
    7. (Medieval Latin) to think, believe
    8. (Medieval Latin) to go to, travel
    9. (Medieval Latin with dative) to obey

    Conjugation

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Insular Romance:
      • Sardinian: intèndhere, intendi, intèndiri, intènnere
    • Balkano-Romance:
    • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Northern Gallo-Romance:
      • Franco-Provençal: entendre
      • Old French: entendre (see there for further descendants)
    • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Ibero Romance:
    • Borrowings:

    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, 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[1], 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
    • intendo in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016