intelligence
‘the capacity to acquire and apply knowledge’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. intelligens, intellygens, intellygence < O.F. intelligence < Lat. intelligentia, intellegentia ‘understanding, knowledge, power of discerning; art, skill, taste’ < intelligentem ‘discerning, appreciative’ < intelligere ‘to understand, comprehend, come to know’ < inter ‘among, between, betwixt, in the midst of’ < enter ‘between, among’ + legere ‘choose, pick out, read’ < in < en < Tamil il-iṉ