The story
- Latin · derived fromintendō, intendere
- Old French · derived fromentendre
- Middle English · inherited fromintenden
- English todayintend
From Middle English intenden, entenden (“direct (one’s) attention towards”), borrowed from Old French entendre, from Latin intendō, intendere. See also intensive. Doublet of entendre. Largely displaced native Old English myntan (“to mean, intend; to think, suppose”), whence dialectal mint.
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchentendre all →
entend
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.