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Latin
Etymology
From ūnus (“one”) + versus (“turned”), hence literally "turned into one".
Pronunciation
Adjective
ūniversus (feminine ūniversa, neuter ūniversum, adverb ūniversē); first/second-declension adjective
- whole, entire, taken collectively or altogether
- universal or universally
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “universus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “universus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- universus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to analyse a general division into its specific parts: genus universum in species certas partiri et dividere (Or. 33. 117)