词汇 | intelligentsia |
词源 | intelligentsia. Another Russian borrowing. The Latin intel- ligere (inter, “between” + legere, “to choose”), “to perceive or un- derstand,” is the ultimate basis of our word intelligentsia for the “intellectual elite,” but the word comes to us through the Rus- sian intelligentsiya, taken from the Latin. It came into English in the 1920s. |
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