LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
noun · femininethird declension

ūniversitās

ūniversitās f (genitive ūniversitātis)
Classical[uː.nɪˈwɛr.sɪ.taːs]Ecclesiastical[u.niˈvɛr.si.tas]

Meaning

  1. the whole
  2. the universe, the whole world
  3. Late Latina group of people taken as a whole, a company, community, corporation
  4. Medieval Latinuniversity

Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativeūniversitāsūniversitātēs
genitiveūniversitātisūniversitātum
dativeūniversitātīūniversitātibus
accusativeūniversitātemūniversitātēs
ablativeūniversitāteūniversitātibus
vocativeūniversitāsūniversitātēs

Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book

rerum or mundi universitas
the universe.

ūnĭversĭtas, ātis, f. id.,
I. the whole.
I. Lit.: universitas generis humani, Cic. N. D. 2, 65, 164: in universitate rerum, i. e. in the universe, id. ib. 1, 43, 120: communem rerum naturam universitatemque omnia continentem, id. ib. 1, 15, 39 B. and K.: hoc interdictum ad universitatem bonorum, non ad singulas res pertinet, Dig. 43, 2, 1: aedificii, ib. 41, 1, 7: aedium, ib. 41, 3, 23: non tantum universitati ejus attendas, verum etiam particulas persequaris, Plin. Ep. 1, 8, 3: orationis, id. ib. 2, 5, 7; cf. id. ib. 3, 15, 5: res per universitatem adquirere, in the aggregate, of succession to the entire property of a person, Gai Inst. 2, 97 sq.; 2, 191; Dig. 43, 3, 1, § 13.—
II. Transf., concr.
A. The whole number of things, the whole world, the universe: universitatis corpus, Cic. Univ. 5; so id. ib. 12: volubilis, Plin. 2, 5, 4, § 11: ambitus terrae totius ad magnitudinem universitatis instar obtuet puncti, Amm. 15, 1, 4.—
B. A number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc. (jurid. Lat.): universitatis sunt, non singulorum, veluti quae in civitatibus sunt theatra et stadia et similia et siqua alia sunt communia civitatum, Dig. 1, 8, 6: quae (res) publicae sunt nullius in bonis creduntur, ipsius enim universitatis esse creduntur, Gai Inst. 2, 11: quod cujusque universitatis nomine vel contra eam agetur, Dig. 3, 4, 2: de libertis universitatum, ib. 38, tit. 3; Gai Inst. 2, 11.

Origins

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

Descendants
  • Catalanuniversitat
  • Italianuniversità
  • Italianuniversitade
  • Italianuniversitate
  • GermanUniversitätfrom Middle High German universitēt
  • Occitanuniversitat
  • Englishuniversityfrom Old French universitei
  • Romanianuniversitate
  • Aragoneseuniversidat
  • Aromanianunivirsitati

In the Academy Smith's classical dictionaries

AntiquitiesUniversitasUniversitas The philosophical division of things (res) in the widest sense of the term into res corporales --objects of the senses--and res incorporal…

Quick answers

What does ūniversitās mean in Latin?
ūniversitās, a noun, means “the whole; the universe, the whole world; a group of people taken as a whole, a company, community, corporation”.
What is the genitive of ūniversitās?
The genitive singular is ūniversitātis. ūniversitās is feminine, third declension.
How do you pronounce ūniversitās?
In classical Latin, [uː.nɪˈwɛr.sɪ.taːs]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [u.niˈvɛr.si.tas].