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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• understand:
    1. I. Comprehend, take in with mind:
      1. 1. intellĭgo, lexi, lectum, 3: I wish your plan to be developed, that I may u. it thoroughly, explicari consilium volo, ut penitus intelligam, Cic. Att. 8., 12: to u. great things from small, magna ex parvis intelligere, id. Off. 1, 41, 146.
      2. 2. comprehendo, di, sum, 3: to u. with mind, comprehendere animo, id. N. D. 3, 25, 64.
      3. 3. căpio, cēpi, captum, 3: to u. what a happy and immortal nature is, capere quae sit et beata natura et aeterna, ib. 1, 19, 49.
      4. 4. complector, plexus, 3: that you may u. the whole system, ut totum genus complectamini, id. Verr. 2, 12, 32.
      5. 5. amplector, 3: if the judge shall fail to u., si judex non amplectetur, Cic. Acad. 4, 8, 26.
      6. 6. perspicio, spexi, spectum, 3 (see thoroughly, make oneself master of a subject): I charge you to u. the whole, totum ... mando tibi ut perspicias, id. Att. 1, 12, 2: argument from things understood to what was not understood, ratio ex rebus perceptis ad id quod non percipiebatur, id. Acad. l. c.
      7. 7. tĕneo, ui, tentum, 2: Ter. Andr. 1, 1, 59: Cic. Fam. 6., 7.
      8. 8. scĭo, īvi, 4: that the Athenians understood what was right, scire quae recta essent, id. Sen. 18, 64: that all are able to speak on that which they u., omnes in eo quod scirent esse eloquentes, id. de Or. 1., 14, 63. In respect of a language or an art: to u. Latin, scire Latine, id. Brut. 37., 140: u.ing (skilful in using) the harp, citharae sciens, Hor. Od. 3, 9, 10.
      9. 9. nōvi, perf. of nosco: to know superficially: he u.s everything, omnia novit, Juv. 3, 77.
      10. 10. săpio, īvi, and ĭi, 3: to have taste or perception. Join: intelligere et sapere, Cic. Off. 2, 14, 48: when he first began to u., quum primum sapere coepit, id. Fam. 14, 1.
      11. 11. accipio, cēpi, ceptum, 3 (to receive as true): things which I scarcely u.stood, quae parum accepi, id. N. D. 3, 1, 4.
      12. 12. căpesso, īvi., ītum, 3: Gell. 12, 1, 11.
      13. 13. sentio, si, sum, 4 (u. by senses): this animal alone u.s what order is, unum hoc animal sentit quid sit ordo, Cic. Off. 1, 4, 14.
      14. 14. ērŭdior, 4, pass. (to be instructed): he u.stood the Persian language so well, sermone Persarum adeo eruditus est, Nep. Them. 10.
      15. 15. interprĕtor, 1: a letter, which I could scarcely u., quam interpretari ipse vix poteram, Cic. Att. 15, 28.
    2. II. To receive information:
      1. 1. intellĭgo, lexi, lectum., 3: Cic. Att. 6, 9, 3.
      2. 2. compĕrio, ĕri, ertum, 4: these things were u.stood from the prisoners, ex captivis haec comperta, Liv. 27, 5: to have u.stood, compertum habeo, Cic. Cluent. 45, 127.
      3. 3. accĭpio, cēpi, ceptum, 3: if they had u.stood by common report, si ... accepissent fama et auditione., id. N. D. 2, 37, 95.
      4. 4. audio, 4: I have u.stood from older persons, audivi de majoribus natu, id. Brut. 26, 100.
      5. 5. certior fio: Caesar having u.stood by scouts, C. per exploratores c. factus, Caes. B. G. 1, 12.
    3. III. In gram.:
      1. 1. intellĭgo: a word is u.stood from another word, verbum ex verbo intelligitur (ἔκλειψις), Quint. 8, 6, 21.
      2. 2. subaudio: Ulp. Dig. 28, 5, 1: Ascon. in Cic. Verr. 1, 2, 4.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• UNDERSTAND
  • To take in, to comprehend, accipere (to take in, grasp with the mind): intelligere (the proper word; anything, aliquid; and also intelligere aliquem, to appreciate anybody’s character, motives, or method of acting; opposed to aliquem ignorare; e.g., parum Socrates ab hominibus sui temporis intelligebatur, was not understood by): comprehendere, amplecti, or complecti, with or without mente (to comprehend, form a notion of): percipere (to perceive). To understand imperfectly, aliquid parum accipere or minus intelligere: to understand thoroughly, penitus intelligere aliquid: to understand a writer, scriptorem intelligere: scriptoris cogitationem assequi et voluntatem interpretari: he who fixes his attention on a writer’s own statements, understands him far better than he who, etc., multo propius ad scriptoris voluntatem accedit, qui ex ipsius eam litteris interpretatur, quam ille, qui, etc.: as far as I understand, quantum ego video or intelligo: do you understand what he says? num intelligis, quod hic narret? I understand, teneo: intelligo: dictum puta: I do not understand you, nescio quid velis: what am I to understand by this? quid hoc sibi vult? quorsum hoc dicis? to give to understand, alicui aliquid significare: to understand by (i. e., to attach such or such a notion to), intelligere, with a double accusative; e.g., quem intelligimus divitem (Cic.), whom we understand by a rich man; quid hoc loco honestum intelligit (Cic.)? what do we understand by moral good? or, intelligi velle, with a double accusative; or dicere, with a double accusative; ☞ not intelligere aliquid sub aliqua re, or per aliquid, which modern writers have sometimes employed in this sense. What are we to understand by this word? sub hac voce quae subjicienda est sententia? quae res subjicienda est huic nomini? to understand by (i. e., to mean, to intend), dicere: significare (with a double accusative; e.g., eum enim significari murum ligneum, Nep.); ☞ not intelligere.
  • To have a knowledge of, to be skilled or versed in, aliquid intelligere (to have a clear insight into or acquaintance with; e.g., multas linguas): scire aliquid, or with an infinitive (to have a clear distinct knowledge of anything): instructum esse aliqua re or ab aliqua re: doctum or eruditum esse aliqua re: alicujus rei non ignarum esse: peritum esse alicujus rei: not to understand, aliquid nescire or ignorare: alicujus rei ignarum esse: to understand Latin, Latine scire: doctum esse Latinis litteris: Latinae linguae peritum esse: to understand Greek as well as Latin, parem esse in Graecae et Latinae linguae facultate: nec minus Graece quam Latine doctum esse.
  • To supply in thought (opposed to express), intelligere: simul audire (of a reader; cum subtractum verbum aliquod satis ex ceteris intelligitur, ut caelius in Antonium “stupere gaudio Graecus,” simul enim auditur “coepit” = coepit is understood, Quint.): intelligi, or audiri velle (of a writer; hoc nomine donarunt ea, quae non dicunt, verum intelligi volunt, Quint.) ☞ in this sense, subaudire and subintelligere are not classical; supplere is not Latin.