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
Audio (file) - 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)
- (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
- universiteit, universitet, universitit (dated)
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
- universitas negeri
- universitas swasta
- universitas terbuka
Coordinate terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
References
Further reading
- “universitas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
Etymology
From noun ūniversus (“turned into one”), from ūni- (“one”), + versus (“turned”), perfect passive participle of vertō, vertere (“turn”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /uː.niˈu̯er.si.taːs/, [uːniˈu̯ɛrs̠ɪt̪äːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /u.niˈver.si.tas/, [uniˈvɛrsit̪äs]
Noun
ūniversitās f (genitive ūniversitātis); third declension
- the whole
- the universe, the whole world
- (Late Latin) a group of people taken as a whole, a company, community, corporation
- (Medieval Latin) university
Declension
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Related terms
- ūniversus
- ūniversālis
- ūniversālitās
- ūniversē
Descendants
All borrowings, without exception.
- Aromanian: univirsitati
- Asturian: universidá
- Belarusian: універсітэ́т (univjersitét)
- Bulgarian: университе́т (universitét)
- Catalan: universitat
- Dutch: universiteit
- Afrikaans: universiteit
- English: university
- Faroese: universitet
- Galician: universidade
- Old French: universitei
- Middle French: université
- French: université (see there for further descendants)
- Norman: unnivèrsité, euniversitaé
- Middle French: université
- German: Universität (see there for further descendants)
- Hebrew: אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה (univérsita)
- Italian: università
- Maltese: università
- Norwegian Bokmål: universitet
- Norwegian Nynorsk: universitet
- Occitan: universitat
- Portuguese: universidade
- Romanian: universitate
- Spanish: universidad
- Serbo-Croatian: univerzitet
- Swedish: universitet
- Ukrainian: університе́т (universytét)
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
- 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
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- (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
- “universitas” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.