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sveučilište

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Formed as sve- +‎ učilište, a calque of Greek πανεπιστήμιον (panepistímion), very likely via Slavonic-Serbian. First attested in the 19th century.[1]

Noun

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sveùčilīšte n (Cyrillic spelling свеу̀чилӣште)

  1. (Croatia) university
    Synonym: univerzìtēt

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2021) “sveùčilīšte”, in Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes II: O—Ž, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 412

Further reading

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  • sveučilište”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025