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Indonesian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin ūniversitās (“university”).[1] Displaced, since 1954, earlier Dutch loanwords universiteit, universitet and universitit.
Pronunciation
Noun
univêrsitas (first-person possessive universitasku, second-person possessive universitasmu, third-person possessive universitasnya)
- university
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
Coordinate terms
Descendants
References
- ^ 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
- 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
Third-declension noun.
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)
- (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
- (Indonesia) university
- Synonym: (East Timor) universidade