universidade

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Etymology

    Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese universidade, possibly borrowed from Old Spanish universidat, borrowed from Medieval Latin ūniversitās, from Latin ūniversus + -tas.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    universidade f (plural universidades)

    1. university

    Further reading

    Old Galician-Portuguese

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

      Possibly borrowed from Old Spanish universidat, as the first universities in the Iberian Peninsula were founded in Spanish-speaking regions.

      Noun

      universidade f (plural *universidades)

      1. university
        • 1301, anonymous author, ; republished as “Novos fragmentos de textos xurídicos galegos (s. XIV)”, in Arthur L.-F. Askins et al., editor, Revista de Literatura Medieval‎, number 9, 1997, →ISSN, page 41, lines 29–31:
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          [O quinto casso he todo coçello ou poboo / ou universidade que outorgarẽ ou husarẽ […] res como se soen ffazer / ẽnos quaes o que nõ ha culpa rreçebe dapño por outro.]
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      Descendants

      • Galician: universidade
      • Portuguese: universidade (see there for further descendants)

      References

      • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “universidade”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG

      Portuguese

      Etymology

        Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese universidade, possibly borrowed from Old Spanish universidat, borrowed from Medieval Latin ūniversitās, from Latin ūniversus + -tas.

        Pronunciation

         
         

        • Hyphenation: u‧ni‧ver‧si‧da‧de

        Noun

        universidade f (plural universidades)

        1. university

        Descendants

        Tetum

        Etymology

          Borrowed from Portuguese universidade, from Old Galician-Portuguese universidade, possibly borrowed from Old Spanish universidat, borrowed from Medieval Latin ūniversitās, from Latin ūniversus + -tas.

          Noun

          universidade

          1. (East Timor) university
            Synonym: (Indonesia) universitas
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