universitas

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ūniversitās (“university”).[1] Displaced, since 1954, earlier Dutch loanwords universiteit, universitet and universitit.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /univərˈsitas/
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  • Rhymes: -itas
  • Syllabification: u‧ni‧ver‧si‧tas
  • Rhymes: -as

Noun

univêrsitas (plural universitas-universitas)

  1. university

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Descendants

  • → Malay: universitas
  • → Tetum: universitas

References

  1. ^ Carr, Denzel (1958) “Some Problems Arising from Linguistic Eleutheromania”, in The Journal of Asian Studies‎, volume 17, number 2, →DOI, pages 207-214

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

    From noun ūniversus (“turned into one”) +‎ -tās, 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

    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative ūniversitās ūniversitātēs
    genitive ūniversitātis ūniversitātum
    dative ūniversitātī ūniversitātibus
    accusative ūniversitātem ūniversitātēs
    ablative ūniversitāte ūniversitātibus
    vocative ūniversitās ūniversitātēs

    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 Latin universitas via Indonesian universitas.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    universitas (Jawi spelling اونيۏرسيتس, plural universitas-universitas, informal 1st possessive universitasku, 2nd possessive universitasmu, 3rd possessive universitasnya)

    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

    Tetum

    Etymology

    From Indonesian universitas, from Latin universitas.

    Noun

    universitas

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