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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Formed as sve- + učilište, a calque of Greek πανεπιστήμιον (panepistímion), very likely via Slavonic-Serbian. First attested in the 19th century.[1]
Noun
sveùčilīšte n (Cyrillic spelling свеу̀чилӣште)
- (Croatia) university
- Synonym: univerzìtēt
Declension
Declension of sveučilište
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2021) “sveùčilīšte”, in Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes II: O—Ž, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 412
Further reading
- “sveučilište”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025