universitas

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ūniversitās (“university”). Reanalysed as *univers +‎ -itas. Doublet of universitet.

• Displaced, since 1955, earlier loanwords universiteit, universitet and universitit, from Dutch universiteit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʊnivərˈsitas]
• Hyphenation: uni‧vêr‧si‧tas

Noun

univêrsitas (first-person possessive universitasku, second-person possessive universitasmu, third-person possessive universitasnya)

1. (education) university: institution of higher education (typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, depending on country, but in some exceptional cases able to take younger students) where subjects are studied and researched in depth and degrees are offered.

Alternative forms

• universiteit, universitet, universitit (dated, Indonesian)
• universiti (Standard Malay)

Hypernyms

• perguruan tinggi

Hyponyms

• universitas negeri
• universitas swasta
• universitas terbuka

 

Coordinate terms

• akademi
• institut
• politeknik
• sekolah tinggi

 

Related terms

• universal

 

Descendants

• → Tetum: universitas

Further reading

• “universitas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

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Latin

Etymology

From noun ūniversus (“turned into one”), from ūni- (“one”), + versus (“turned”), perfect passive participle of vertō, vertere (“turn”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /uː.niˈu̯er.si.taːs/, [uːniˈu̯ɛrs̠ɪt̪äːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /u.niˈver.si.tas/, [uniˈvɛrsit̪äs]

Noun

ūniversitās f (genitive ūniversitātis); third declension

1. university
2. corporation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ūniversitās	ūniversitātēs
Genitive	ūniversitātis	ūniversitātum
Dative	ūniversitātī	ūniversitātibus
Accusative	ūniversitātem	ūniversitātēs
Ablative	ūniversitāte	ūniversitātibus
Vocative	ūniversitās	ūniversitātēs

Related terms

• ūniversālis
• ūniversālitās
• ūniversē
• ūniversus

 

Descendants

All borrowings, without exception.

• Asturian: universidá
• Belarusian: універсітэ́т (univjersitét)
• Bulgarian: университе́т (universitét)
• Catalan: universitat
• English: university
• Faroese: universitet
• Galician: universidade
• Old French: universitei
  • Middle French: université
    • French: université (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman: unnivèrsité, euniversitaé
  • Tourangeau: eunivarsitey
• German: Universität (see there for further descendants)
  • Yiddish: אוניווערסיטעט‎ (universitet)
• Hebrew: אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה‎ (univérsita)
• Italian: università
• Maltese: università
• Norwegian Bokmål: universitet
• Norwegian Nynorsk: universitet
• Occitan: universitat
• Portuguese: universidade
• Spanish: universidad
• Serbo-Croatian: univerzitet
• Swedish: universitet
• Ukrainian: університе́т (universytét)

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^[1], 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

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Malay

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”), see Indonesian universitas (“university”).

Further reading

• “universitas” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.