universitas
Indonesian
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin ūniversitās (“university”).[1] Doublet of universitet. Displaced, since 1954, earlier loanwords universiteit, universitet and universitit. Compare Tagalog unibersidad, Malay universiti.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editunivêrsitas (first-person possessive universitasku, second-person possessive universitasmu, third-person possessive universitasnya)
- (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
edit- universiteit, universitet, universitit (dated)
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editDescendants
edit- → Tetum: universitas
References
editFurther reading
edit- “universitas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom noun ūniversus (“turned into one”) + -tās, from ūni- (“one”), + versus (“turned”), perfect passive participle of vertō, vertere (“turn”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /uː.niˈu̯er.si.taːs/, [uːniˈu̯ɛrs̠ɪt̪äːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /u.niˈver.si.tas/, [uniˈvɛrsit̪äs]
Noun
editūniversitās f (genitive ūniversitātis); third declension
- the whole
- the universe, the whole world
- (Late Latin) a group of people taken as a whole, a company, community, corporation
- (Medieval Latin) university
Declension
editThird-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
editDescendants
editAll borrowings, without exception.
- Aromanian: univirsitati
- Asturian: universidá
- Belarusian: універсітэ́т (univjersitét)
- Bulgarian: университе́т (universitét)
- Catalan: universitat
- Dutch: universiteit
- Afrikaans: universiteit
- English: university
- Faroese: universitet
- Galician: universidade
- Old French: universitei
- Middle French: université
- French: université (see there for further descendants)
- Norman: unnivèrsité, euniversitaé
- Middle French: université
- German: Universität (see there for further descendants)
- Hebrew: אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה (univérsita)
- Italian: università
- Maltese: università
- Norwegian Bokmål: universitet
- Norwegian Nynorsk: universitet
- Occitan: universitat
- Portuguese: universidade
- Romanian: universitate
- Sicilian: univirsità, univirsitati
- Spanish: universidad
- Serbo-Croatian: univerzitet
- Swedish: universitet
- Ukrainian: університе́т (universytét)
References
edit- “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[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the universe: rerum or mundi universitas
- 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
Malay
editEtymology
editFrom Latin universitas via Indonesian universitas. Compare Tagalog unibersidad.
Pronunciation
edit- (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /univərˈsitas/ [u.ni.vərˈsi.t̪as]
- Hyphenation: u‧ni‧ver‧si‧tas
Noun
edituniversitas (Jawi spelling اونيۏرسيتس, plural universitas-universitas, informal 1st possessive universitasku, 2nd possessive universitasmu, 3rd possessive universitasnya)
- (Indonesia) alternative spelling of universiti (“university”).
Usage notes
edit- Preserved in proper nouns relating to Indonesian institutions, Malaysian and Singaporean counterparts use universiti in their names instead.
Further reading
edit- “universitas” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
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