intleacht

From Old Irish int(ṡ)liucht, intlecht, from Latin intellēctus, from intellegō (“I understand”).

intleacht f (genitive singular intleachta, nominative plural intleachtaí)

1. intellect, intelligence

• intleacht shaorga f (“artificial intelligence”)
• intleachtach (“ingenious”, adjective)
• intleachtóir m (“intellectual”)
• intleachtúil (“intellectual”, adjective)
• lucht intleachta (“intelligentsia”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “intleacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “int(ṡ)liucht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language