# universitas
## Indonesian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /univərˈsitas/ [u.ni.fərˈsi.t̪as]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -itas
* Syllabification: u‧ni‧ver‧si‧tas
* Rhymes: -as

### Noun

univêrsitas (plural universitas-universitas)
* 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

### References

* ↑ Carr, Denzel (1958) “Some Problems Arising from Linguistic Eleutheromania”, in The Journal of Asian Studies‎, volume 17, number 2, →DOI, pages 207-214

### 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: /uː.niˈu̯er.si.taːs/, [uːniˈu̯ɛrs̠ɪt̪äːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /u.niˈver.si.tas/, [uniˈvɛrsit̪äs]

### Noun

ūniversitās 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

Third-declension noun.

#### Hyponyms

* omnia

#### Related terms

* ūniversālis
* ūniversālitās
* ūniversē
* ūniversus

#### Descendants

All borrowings, without exception.
* Aragonese: universidat
* Aromanian: univirsitati
* Asturian: universidá
* → Basque: unibertsitate (learned)
* Bulgarian: университе́т (universitét)
* Catalan: universitat
* Corsican: università
* Danish: universitet
** → Greenlandic: universiteti
* Faroese: universitet
* → Greek: πανεπιστήμιο (panepistímio) (calque)
* Hebrew: אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה (univérsita)
* → Indonesian: universitas, universiteit, universitet, universitit (dated) (learned)
** → Malay: universitas
** → Tetum: universitas
* Italian: università, universitade, universitate (obsolete)
** → Ido: universitato
** → Maltese: università
* Latvian: universitāte
* → Middle High German: universitēt (learned)
** German: Universität (see there for further descendants)
* Norwegian Bokmål: universitet
* Norwegian Nynorsk: universitet
* Occitan: universitat
* Old French: universitei (see there for further descendants)
** English: university
* → Old Spanish: universidat (learned) (see there for further descendants)
* Romanian: universitate
* Sicilian: univirsità, univirsitati
* Swedish: universitet

### 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, 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: /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)
* (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
* (Indonesia) university
    Synonym: (East Timor) universidade