English

university

/junɪˈvɜːsəti/
An institution of higher education that provides facilities for teaching, research, and the conferral of academic degrees across undergraduate, graduate, and often professional levels.

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    From Middle English universite (“institution of higher learning, body of persons constituting a university”) from Anglo-Norman université, from Old French universitei, from Medieval Latin stem of universitas, in juridical and Late Latin "a number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc"; in Latin, "the whole, aggregate," from universus (“whole, entire”). By surface analysis, universe + -ity.

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    • inheritedMiddle Englishuniversite “institution of higher learning, body of persons constituting a university”
      • derivedAnglo-Normanuniversité
        • derivedOld Frenchuniversitei
    • surface analysisEnglishuniverse “The sum of everything that exists in the cosmos.”
    • surface analysisEnglish-ity “Used to form an uncountable noun from an adjective; especially, to form the noun referring to the s…”

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