Word Origin Summary

Intelligens is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• intelligent

  English · derived from

• inteligen

  Indonesian · derived from

• intelligent

  Dutch · derived from

• intelligent

  German · derived from

• intelligentti

  Finnish · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root