Noun: intellect
| Singular | intellect |
| Plural | intellects |
Sample Sentences
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Intellect is one of man's greatest powers.
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They were chosen because of their outstanding intellect.
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Arms of stripes and shirts of checks / You had a very nice intellect [1983, “Intelligence”, in Shiver, performed by Virna Lindt:]
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Some of the world's leading intellects were meeting there.
Nouns inflected like intellect
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin intellēctus (“understanding, intellect”), from Latin intellegō (“understand; reason”), from inter (“between, among”) + legō (“read”), with connotation of bind. See: Latin Nouns '
intellegō'.