intellectuel
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Late Latin intellēctuālis. Morphologically, from intellect + -uel. Cognate to English intellectual.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]intellectuel (feminine intellectuelle, masculine plural intellectuels, feminine plural intellectuelles)
- intellectual
- masturbation intellectuelle ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- quotient intellectuel ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Danish: intellektuel
- → Dutch: intellectueel
- Afrikaans: intellektueel
- → German: intellektuell
- → Norwegian Bokmål: intellektuell
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: intellektuell
- → Romanian: intelectual
- → Swedish: intellektuell
- → Turkish: entelektüel
- → Yiddish: אינטעלעקטועל (intelektuel)
Noun
[edit]intellectuel m (plural intellectuels, feminine intellectuelle)
- an intellectual (intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters)
Further reading
[edit]- “intellectuel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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