intellectuel
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)
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)
Further reading edit
- “intellectuel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.