gr. epinoia: poder do pensamento, da imaginação, inventividade; pensamento em Pitágoras.

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Before the Latin translations of De anima, intellectus did not in fact refer to the nous of Aristotle   and his Greek commentators but usually to the deeply Stoicist notion of color: epinoia [ἐπίνοια]. These two oppositions—nous vs dianoia and nous vs epinoia—mark two historical periods of intellectus: the one pre-Socratic, when it is synonymous with opinio, and the other Scholastic, when it refers to the intellect-nous of De anima 3.4–5, distinguishing it from ratio. We will focus in this entry on the Peripatetic usages, which are the most poorly served by modern translations. [...] If in the Scholastic and “Arabo-Latin” tradition intellectus has the primary meaning of intellect, in the original “Greco-Latin” tradition ( that of Boethius   ) it sometimes has the meaning of epinoia [ἐπίνοια] ( “that which comes to mind,” “reflection,” “imagination,” “thought,” rather than, by extension, “intelligence” in general, or even “common sense” ), which is usually translated as opinio. [CassinDU  ]