universitas

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ūniversitās (“university”). Displaced, since 1954, earlier Dutch loanwords universiteit, universitet and universitit.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /univərˈsitas/ [u.ni.fərˈsi.t̪as]

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• Rhymes: -itas
• Syllabification: u‧ni‧ver‧si‧tas
• Rhymes: -as

Noun

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

1. university

Alternative forms

• universiteit, universitet, universitit (dated)

Hypernyms

• perguruan tinggi

Hyponyms

• universitas negeri
• universitas swasta
• universitas terbuka

 

Coordinate terms

• akademi
• institut
• politeknik
• sekolah tinggi

 

Related terms

• universal

 

Descendants

• → Malay: universitas
• → Tetum: universitas

Further reading

• “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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ūniversitās f (genitive ūniversitātis); third declension

1. the whole
2. the universe, the whole world
3. (Late Latin) a group of people taken as a whole, a company, community, corporation
4. (Medieval Latin) university

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.

• Aromanian: univirsitati
• Asturian: universidá
• Belarusian: універсітэ́т (univjersitét)
• Bulgarian: университе́т (universitét)
• Catalan: universitat
• Dutch: universiteit
  • Afrikaans: universiteit
• English: university
• Faroese: universitet
• Old French: universitei
  • Middle French: université
    • French: université (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman: unnivèrsité, euniversitaé
• Hebrew: אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה (univérsita)
• Indonesian: universitas, universiteit, universitet, universitit
  • → Malay: universitas
  • → Tetum: universitas
• Italian: università
• Maltese: università
• Middle High German: universitēt
  • German: Universität (see there for further descendants)
• Norwegian Bokmål: universitet
• Norwegian Nynorsk: universitet
• Occitan: universitat
• Old Spanish: universidat
  • Spanish: universidad (see there for further descendants)
  • →? Old Galician-Portuguese: universidade, universsidade
    • Galician: universidade
    • Portuguese: universidade (see there for further descendants)
• Romanian: universitate
• Sicilian: univirsità, univirsitati
• 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^[2], 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

Malay

Etymology

From Latin universitas via Indonesian universitas.

Pronunciation

• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /univərˈsitas/ [u.ni.vərˈsi.t̪as]
• Hyphenation: u‧ni‧ver‧si‧tas

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”).

Usage notes

• Preserved in proper nouns relating to Indonesian institutions, Malaysian and Singaporean counterparts use universiti in their names instead.

Further reading

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

Tetum

Etymology

From Indonesian universitas, from Latin universitas.

Noun

universitas

1. (Indonesia) university

   Synonym: (East Timor) universidade