université

See also: üniversite

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French universitei, itself borrowed from Medieval Latin universitātem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.ni.vɛʁ.si.te/

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Noun

université f (plural universités)

1. university (institution of higher education)

Derived terms

• universitaire

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: inivèsite
• → Esperanto: universitato
  • → Ido: universitato
• → Ido: universitato
• → Persian: اونیورسیته (universite)
• → Romanian: universitate
• → Turkish: üniversite

Further reading

• “université”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle French

Noun

université f (plural universitez)

1. university (institution of higher education)
2. entirety; universality

Descendants

• French: université
  • Haitian Creole: inivèsite
  • → Esperanto: universitato
    • → Ido: universitato
  • → Ido: universitato
  • → Persian: اونیورسیته (universite)
  • → Romanian: universitate
  • → Turkish: üniversite

Old French

Noun

université oblique singular, f (oblique plural universitez, nominative singular université, nominative plural universitez)

1. university (institution of higher education)

Descendants

• → Middle English: universite, universitee, unyversyte, unyversite, universyth, unewersyte, unyversitee, universythe
  • English: university (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: university, universitie