Etymology of “Intelligent”
Tracing the origin and linguistic journey from French
Source language
French
Ancestry links
1
Descendants
4
Word Origin Summary
Intelligent is attested in French. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.
Ancestry Chain
Descendants and Related Terms
- inteligent
Romanian · borrowed from
- inteligen
Indonesian · derived from
- intelligent
Danish · derived from
- intelligent
Dutch · derived from
What You Can Explore
- 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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- 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
- 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root