From Middle English intenden, entenden ("direct (one’s) attention towards"), borrowed from Old French entendre, from Latin intendo.

• enPR: ĭn-tĕndʹ, IPA: /ɪnˈtɛnd/

intend (intends, present participle intending; simple past and past participle intended)

1. (ambitransitive, usually followed by particle "to" + verb, or "on"/"upon" + noun) To fix the mind upon (something, or something to be accomplished); be intent upon

   Synonyms: mean, design, plan, purpose, foremind, mint

   He intends to go to university.

   They evidently intended some mischief.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC ↗:

     The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.

2. To fix the mind on; attend to; take care of; superintend; regard.
3. (obsolete) To stretch to extend; distend.
4. To strain; make tense.
5. (obsolete) To intensify; strengthen.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC ↗:
     , Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.139:

     Dotage, fatuity, or folly […] is for the most part intended or remitted in particular men, and thereupon some are wiser than others […].

6. To apply with energy.
7. To bend or turn; direct, as one’s course or journey.
8. To design mechanically or artistically; fashion; mold.
9. To pretend; counterfeit; simulate.

• intense
• intensive
• intent
• intention
• intension

• French: avoir l'intention, prévoir
• German: beabsichtigen, vorhaben, intendieren (formal)
• Italian: intendere, avere in animo
• Portuguese: pretender, tencionar
• Russian: намерева́ться
• Spanish: pretender, planear, intencionar, intentar

• French: envisager, concevoir, prévoir
• Spanish: intentar