intend

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to plan or want to do something.

   He intends to go to university next year.

2. 2
   verb

   to mean something for a particular person or purpose.

   This book is intended for beginners learning English.

Simplified etymology

Intend entered Middle English in the spelling entend, initially meaning “to direct the attention to.” It came through Old French entendre from Latin intendere, “intend, extend, direct,” literally “to stretch toward.”

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.

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