“intend” in Latin

Strain, distend (Vid :), intendere (opposed to remittere).

Mean, purpose, spectare aliquid, ad aliquid or with ut (to have an object in view): propositum habeo or propositum est mihi, aliquid or with infinitive (to purpose; to have resolved; to have anything before one’s mind, as a thing to be done): cogitare aliquid, or with infinitive (to think of anything, of doing anything): destinare (rare, but classical; infectis iis, quae agere destinaverat, Caes.): agitare, with or without (in) mente, (in) animo (to be revolving in one’s mind): statuisse or constituisse (to have determined; to do anything): id agere, ut (to be taking steps to accomplish): sometimes moliri: parare (to be preparing): ☞ intendere must be used very carefully but there are some constructions in which it may be used for our “intend,” i. e., where the notion is “to bend the mind in any direction,” animum aliquo intendere, or to bend, as it were, one’s bow at = “aim at.” I see clearly what he hopes, and what he intends, quid iste speret, et quo animum intendat, perspicio (i. e., to what point he is bending his mind, straining his faculties): you must explain this before you proceed to what you inform us that you intendto say, quod est tibi ante explicandum, quam illuc proficiscare, quo te dicis intendere (Cic., i. e., at which you say that you are aiming). Quod ubi secus procedit, neque, quod intenderat, efficere potest (Sall., he cannot even accomplish what he intended; i. e., aimed at accomplishing). Si Antonius, quod animo intenderat, efficere potuisset (Cic., had been able to effect what he intended; i. e., had aimed at in his mind). What was intended by all this, but, etc., quonam haec omnia... pertinerent (e.g., nisi ad suam perniciem): What is intended by this speech? quid sibi vult haec oratio? quid sibi volunt verba ista? To intend anybody or anything for anything, destinare aliquem, or aliquid ad aliquid, or alicui rei (in this sense it seems to be post-Augustan). To intend anybody for the bar, destinare aliquem foro (Quint..): Nature intended anybody for, etc., aliquis natus est ad aliquid.