INTELLECTUS in English translation

• intellect
• understanding
• intellectual
• intellects

Examples of using Intellectus in Latin and their translations into English

Videtur quod voluntas sit altior potentia quam intellectus.
It would seem that the will is a higher power than the intellect.

Hoc autem non esset si homo in dormiendo liberum usum rationis et intellectus haberet.
But this would not be the case if man, while asleep, had free use of his reason and intellect.

Et ego quidem est compositus intellectus ex potentia et actu, mihi autem esse ex eo quod actu est.
And I ego am the intellect composed of potency and act, but my to be is from that which is in act.

Sed operatio intellectus est prior quam operatio voluntatis.
It's an intelligence operation more than a military operation.

Et ego quidem est compositus intellectus ex potentia et actu, mihi autem esse ex eo quod actu est.
And I am an intellect composed of potency and act, but what it is for me to be comes from that which is in act.

Quomodo autem sciret intellectus, hoc esse ens defectivum et incompletum,
For how would the intellect know that a being is defective and incomplete if it

Cum igitur intellectus habeat esse intelligibile,
Consequently, since the intellect has an intelligible mode of existing,

Et propter hoc Aristoteles posuit quod intellectus, quo anima intelligit,
For this reason Aristotle(ibid.) held that the intellect by which the soul understands has no innate species,

In ordine ergo cognoscendi, intellectus est prior,
Therefore, in the order of knowing, the intellect is prior;

quod intellectus de substantia percipit,
By attribute I understand what the intellect perceives of a substance,

Quaestio disputata De anima(1265-1266) et Tractatus de Anima animalium& Hominis De unitate intellectus contra Averroistas(circa 1270)- Confirmatio quod homo individuus habet animam suam particularem.
Includes criticism of the Aristotelianism of Ibn Rushd(Averroës); also De Unitate Intellectus Contra Averroistas Paris 1270.

Et tamen postea multis argumentis probat, quod operatio intellectus non fit per organum corporale.
Afterwards he proves with many arguments that the operation of the intellect does not take place through a bodily organ.

Hoc autem non potest esse aliquid quod sit de substantia intellectus, cum intellectus non sit compositus ex materia et forma.
This cannot be anything pertaining to the substance of the intellect, since the intellect is not composed of matter and form.

Quantus est intellectus?
How smart are you?

Veritas est adaequatio rei et intellectus.
Also found as adaequatio rei et intellectus.

Si igitur perfecta operatio est ultimus finis, videtur quod ultimus finis magis sit secundum operationem voluntatis quam intellectus.
So, if perfect operation is the ultimate end, it appears that the ultimate end is more in accord with an operation of the will than of the intellect.

compositioni et divisioni intellectus adiungitur tempus.
composition and division of the intellect involve time.

actio intellectus non potest attribui Socrati.
the action of the intellect cannot be attributed to Socrates.

Respondeo dicendum quod beatitudo intellectualis naturae consistit in actu intellectus.
I answer that, The beatitude of an intellectual nature consists in an act of the intellect.

quod operatio intellectus non fit per organum corporale.
that the operation of the intellect is not accomplished through a corporeal organ.