Where does “intelligentsija” come from?
intelligentsija (Finnish) comes from Russian интеллиге́нция, from Polish inteligencja, from Latin intellegentia, from Latin intellegēns, from Latin intellegō, from Latin legō, from Latin lēx, from Proto-Italic lēg- — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
intelligentsija (Finnish): intelligentsia
Ancestry of “intelligentsija”, step by step