Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·russian ·1900s
Intelligentsia
from интеллигенция
- Meaning
- The educated, cultured class — usually involved in critical thinking about society.
- Source word
- интеллигенция
- Route into English
- Russian 1860s usage (a self-conscious educated elite) → English via 19th-c. Russian literary translation.
- Arrived
- 1900s
English borrows.
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