intuit

== English == === Etymology === A back-formation from intuition and intuitive; compare Latin intuitus (“observed; considered”), perfect participle of intueor (“to look at, upon or towards; to observe, regard; to consider, contemplate”), from in- (“in, inside”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”)) + tueor (“to look or gaze at”). Related to tuition, tutor. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪnˈtjuːɪt/, /-ˈtʃuː-/ (General American) IPA(key): /ɪnˈtuɪt/ Hyphenation: in‧tu‧it === Verb === intuit (third-person singular simple present intuits, present participle intuiting, simple past and past participle intuited) (ambitransitive) To know intuitively or by immediate perception. ==== Related terms ==== intuitable intuition intuitive intuitively intuitiveness ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === intuition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “intuit”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.