universitas

Learned borrowing from Latin ūniversitās (“university”).^[1] Displaced, since 1954, earlier Dutch loanwords universiteit, universitet and universitit.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /univərsiˈtas/ [u.ni.fər.siˈt̪as]

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

univêrsitas (plural universitas-universitas)

1. university

• universiteit, universitet, universitit (dated)

• perguruan tinggi

• → Malay: universitas
• → Tetum: universitas

• “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.

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [uː.nɪˈwɛr.sɪ.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [u.niˈvɛr.si.t̪as]

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

Third-declension noun.

• omnia

All borrowings, without exception.

• “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

From Latin universitas via Indonesian universitas.

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

universitas (Jawi spelling اونيۏرسيتس, plural universitas-universitas)

1. (Indonesia) alternative spelling of universiti (“university”)

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

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

From Indonesian universitas, from Latin universitas.

universitas

1. (Indonesia) university

   Synonym: (East Timor) universidade