intelectual
Galician
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Derived from Latin intellēctuālis.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]intelectual m or f (plural intelectuais)
Further reading
[edit]- “intelectual”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
- “intelectual”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
Portuguese
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Learned borrowing from Latin intellēctuālis. By surface analysis, intelecto + -ual.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
[edit]intelectual m or f (plural intelectuais)
Derived terms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Bengali: আঁতেল (ãtel)
Further reading
[edit]- “intelectual” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “intelectual”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Romanian
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[edit]- интелектуал (intelectual) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling
Etymology
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Borrowed from French intellectuel. By surface analysis, intelect + -ual.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]intelectual m (plural intelectuali, feminine equivalent intelectuală)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative-accusative | intelectual | intelectualul | intelectuali | intelectualii |
| genitive-dative | intelectual | intelectualului | intelectuali | intelectualilor |
| vocative | intelectualule | intelectualilor | ||
Adjective
[edit]intelectual m or n (feminine singular intelectuală, masculine plural intelectuali, feminine/neuter plural intelectuale)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | intelectual | intelectuală | intelectuali | intelectuale | ||
| definite | intelectualul | intelectuala | intelectualii | intelectualele | |||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | intelectual | intelectuale | intelectuali | intelectuale | ||
| definite | intelectualului | intelectualei | intelectualilor | intelectualelor | |||
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[edit]References
[edit]- “intelectual”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026
Spanish
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Latin intellēctuālis
Spanish intelectual
From Latin intellēctuālis.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /inteleɡˈtwal/ [ĩn̪.t̪e.leɣ̞ˈt̪wal]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: in‧te‧lec‧tual
Adjective
[edit]intelectual m or f (masculine and feminine plural intelectuales)
- intellectual
- 2019 August 28, Harold Alvarado Tenorio, “Borges ha cumplido 120 años”, in El Nacional[1], archived from the original on 21 September 2025:
- En la Biblioteca de Babel, quienes trabajan, están atrapados por una actividad inferior y degradante, inacabable y embrutecedora, dirigidos por perversos que han tomado por asalto, con la ayuda de políticos profesionales, los lugares que corresponderían a intelectuales y escritores.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “intelectual”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026
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