Etymograph

English

intuitive

Intuitive comes from Medieval Latin intuitivus ‘coming from direct seeing or immediate…’, from Latin intueor ‘to look at, upon or towards’, and ultimately from tueor.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtueor‘look at’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEintueoras intueri‘to look at, upon or towards’
  3. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500intuitivus‘coming from direct seeing or immediate understanding, intuitive’
  4. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600intuitif
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2012intuitive

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtueor‘look at’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEintueoras intueri‘to look at, upon or towards’
  3. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500intuitivus‘coming from direct seeing or immediate understanding, intuitive’
  4. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600intuitif
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2012intuitive

Earliest quotation: 2012, Steven Sloman, The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation: “Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way…”

Linked words

through Latin tueor ‘look at’

tutorial, tuition, tutelage, 7 more

Today it means

adj Spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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