universidade

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese universidade, possibly borrowed from Old Spanish universidat, a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ūniversitās, from ūniversus + -tas.

• IPA^(key): /unibeɾsiˈdade/ [u.ni.β̞eɾ.s̺iˈð̞a.ð̞ɪ]
• Rhymes: -ade

universidade f (plural universidades)

1. university

• universitario

• “universidade”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

• universsidade

Possibly borrowed from Old Spanish universidat, as the first universities in the Iberian Peninsula were founded in Spanish-speaking regions.

universidade f (plural *universidades)

1. university
   • 1301, anonymous author, [Sobre os cregos]; republished as “Novos fragmentos de textos xurídicos galegos (s. XIV)”, in Arthur L.-F. Askins et al., editor, Revista de Literatura Medieval‎^[1], number 9, 1997, →ISSN, page 41, lines 29–31:

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     [O quinto casso he todo coçello ou poboo / ou universidade que outorgarẽ ou husarẽ […] res como se soen ffazer / ẽnos quaes o que nõ ha culpa rreçebe dapño por outro.]

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• Galician: universidade
• Portuguese: universidade
  • → Tetum: universidade

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “universidade”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese universidade, possibly borrowed from Old Spanish universidat, a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ūniversitās, from ūniversus + -tas.

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• Hyphenation: u‧ni‧ver‧si‧da‧de

universidade f (plural universidades)

1. university

• → Tetum: universidade

Borrowed from Portuguese universidade, from Old Galician-Portuguese universidade, possibly borrowed from Old Spanish universidat, a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ūniversitās, from ūniversus + -tas.

universidade

1. (East Timor) university

   Synonym: (Indonesia) universitas

• “universidade”, in Dicionário infopédia: Tetum-English, Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025