universitas

Indonesian

Etymology

• Learned borrowing from Latin universitas (“university”). Reanalysed as *univers +‎ -itas. Doublet of universitet.
• Displaced, since 1955, earlier loanword universiteit, universitet and universitit, from Dutch universiteit.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

1. (education) university

Alternative forms

• universiteit (dated)
• universitet (dated)
• universiti (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)
• universitit (dated)

Hypernyms

• perguruan tinggi

Hyponyms

Hypernyms of universitas

• universitas negeri
• universitas swasta
• universitas terbuka

 

Coordinate terms

Coordinate terms of universitas

• akademi
• institut
• politeknik
• sekolah tinggi

 

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 universus (“all turned into one”), from uni- (“one”), + versus (“turned”), perfect passive participle of vertō, vertere (“turn”).

Pronunciation

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

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
• universalitas
• ūniversē
• ūniversus

 

Descendants

• 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)
• 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, impolite 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.