Where does “antiintelectualist” come from?
antiintelectualist (Romanian) comes from Romanian intelectualist, from Romanian intelectual, from French intellectuel, from Latin intellectualis, from Latin intellēctus, from Latin intellegō, from Latin legō, from Latin lēx — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
antiintelectualist (Romanian): anti-intellectualist
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- anti-intellectualist
Ancestry of “antiintelectualist”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | intelectualist | intellectualist |
| 2 | Romanian | intelectual | intellectual |
| 3 | French | intellectuel | intellectual |
| 4 | Latin | intellectualis | intellectual |
| 5 | Latin | intellēctus | understood; realized |
| 6 | Latin | intellegō | to understand, comprehend, realize, come to know |
| 7 | Latin | legō | to collect, gather, bring together, catch |
| 8 | Latin | lēx | a proposition or motion for a law made to the people by a magistrate, a bill |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | lēg- | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ-s | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |