universidade

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /unibeɾsiˈdade/ [u.ni.β̞eɾ.s̺iˈð̞a.ð̞ɪ]
• Rhymes: -ade

Noun

universidade f (plural universidades)

1. university

Related terms

• universitario

Further reading

• “universidade”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• uniuersidade, universsidade

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ís?

Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos

Proto-Italic *oinos

Old Latin oinos

Medieval Latin ūnus

Proto-Indo-European *wert-

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *wr̥ttós

Proto-Italic *worssosder.

Latin vorsusder.

Medieval Latin versus

Medieval Latin ūniversus

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Proto-Italic *-tāts

Medieval Latin -tas

Medieval Latin ūniversitāslbor.

Old Spanish universidatbor.?

Old Galician-Portuguese universidade

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, [Sobre os cregos]; republished as “Novos fragmentos de textos xurídicos galegos (s. XIV)”, in Arthur L.-F. Askins et al., editor, Revista de Literatura Medieval‎^[1], 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
  • → Tetum: universidade

References

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “universidade”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “universidade+(2)”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /u.ni.veʁ.siˈda.d͡ʒi/ [u.ni.veh.siˈda.d͡ʒi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /u.ni.veʁ.siˈda.d͡ʒi/ [u.ni.veh.siˈda.d͡ʒi]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /u.ni.veɾ.siˈda.d͡ʒi/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /u.ni.veʁ.siˈda.d͡ʒi/ [u.ni.veχ.siˈda.d͡ʒi]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /u.ni.veɻ.siˈda.d͡ʒi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /u.ni.veʁ.siˈda.de/ [u.ni.veh.siˈda.de]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /u.ni.vɨɾ.siˈda.dɨ/ [u.ni.vɨɾ.siˈða.ðɨ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /u.ni.vɨɾ.siˈda.dɨ/ [u.ni.vɨɾ.siˈða.ðɨ]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /u.ni.bɨɾ.siˈda.dɨ/ [u.ni.βɨɾ.siˈða.ðɨ]

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Hyphenation: u‧ni‧ver‧si‧da‧de

Noun

universidade f (plural universidades)

1. university

Related terms

• universal
• universitário
• universo

Descendants

• → Tetum: universidade

Further reading

• “universidade”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “universidade”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Tetum

Etymology

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

Noun

universidade

1. (East Timor) university

   Synonym: (Indonesia) universitas

References

• “universidade”, in Dicionário infopédia: Tetum-English, Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026