universitas

Indonesian

Etymology

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).[1] Doublet of universitet. Displaced, since 1954, earlier loanwords universiteit, universitet and universitit.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /univərˈsitas/, [u.ni.fərˈsi.t̪as]
  • Hyphenation: uni‧vêr‧si‧tas

Noun

univêrsitas (first-person possessive universitasku, second-person possessive universitasmu, third-person possessive universitasnya)

  1. (education) university: institution of higher education (typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, depending on country, but in some exceptional cases able to take younger students) where subjects are studied and researched in depth and degrees are offered.

Alternative forms

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

Coordinate terms

Descendants

  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

References

  1. “Some Problems Arising from Linguistic Eleutheromania”, in The Journal of Asian Studies, volume 17, issue 2, 1958, →DOI, page 207-214

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

From noun ūniversus (turned into one), from ūni- (one), + versus (turned), perfect passive participle of vertō, vertere (turn).

Pronunciation

Noun

ūniversitās f (genitive ūniversitātis); third declension

  1. the whole
  2. the universe, the whole world
  3. (Late Latin) a group of people taken as a whole, a company, community, corporation
  4. (Medieval Latin) university

Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Descendants

All borrowings, without exception.

References

  • universitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • universitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • universitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the universe: rerum or mundi universitas
  • universitas”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Malay

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) via Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

Pronunciation

  • (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /univərˈsitas/, [u.ni.vərˈsi.t̪as]
  • Hyphenation: u‧ni‧ver‧si‧tas

Noun

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

  1. (Indonesia) alternative spelling of universiti (university).

Usage notes

  • Preserved in proper nouns relating to Indonesian institutions, Malaysian and Singaporean counterparts use universiti in their names instead.

Further reading

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