universitas

Indonesian

Etymology

From Latin universitas (“university”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uni.vər.si.tas/
• Hyphenation: uni‧vêr‧si‧tas

Noun

universitas

1. (education, formal) university

Alternative forms

• universitet (archaic)

Derived terms

• universitas terbuka

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.niˈwer.si.taːs/, [uː.nɪˈwɛr.sɪ.taːs]

Noun

ūniversitās f (genitive ūniversitātis); third declension

1. university

Inflection

Third declension.

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

Related terms

• ūniversē
• ūniversus
• ūniversālis
• universalitas

Descendants

• Asturian: universidá
• Belarusian: універсітэ́т (univjersitét)
• Bulgarian: университѐт (universitѐt)
• Catalan: universitat
• English: university
• Faroese: universitet
• Old French: universitei
  • Middle French: université
    • French: université
  • Norman: unnivèrsité, euniversitaé
  • Tourangeau: eunivarsitey
• German: Universität
• Italian: università
• Maltese: università
• Norwegian Bokmål: universitet
• Norwegian Nynorsk: universitet
• Portuguese: universidade
• Russian: университе́т (universitét)
• Spanish: universidad
• Swedish: universitet
• Turkish: üniversite
• 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