universus

Latin

Etymology

From ūnus (“one”) +‎ versus (“turned”), hence literally "turned into one".

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /uː.niˈu̯er.sus/, [uːniˈu̯ɛrs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /u.niˈver.sus/, [uniˈvɛrsus]

Adjective

ūniversus (feminine ūniversa, neuter ūniversum, adverb ūniversē); first/second-declension adjective

1. whole, entire, taken collectively or altogether
2. universal or universally

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	ūniversus	ūniversa	ūniversum		ūniversī	ūniversae	ūniversa
genitive	ūniversī	ūniversae	ūniversī		ūniversōrum	ūniversārum	ūniversōrum
dative	ūniversō	ūniversae	ūniversō		ūniversīs
accusative	ūniversum	ūniversam	ūniversum		ūniversōs	ūniversās	ūniversa
ablative	ūniversō	ūniversā	ūniversō		ūniversīs
vocative	ūniverse	ūniversa	ūniversum		ūniversī	ūniversae	ūniversa

Derived terms

• ūniversālis
• ūniversē
• ūniversī
• ūniversum

Descendants

• Catalan: univers
• Italian: universo
• Old French: univers
  • Middle French: univers
    • French: univers
      • → Romanian: univers
      • → Esperanto: universo
        • Ido: universo
  • → Middle English: universe
    • English: universe
    • Scots: univers
• Sicilian: universu
• West Iberian
  • Portuguese: universo
  • Spanish: universo
• → Danish: univers
• → Dutch: universum
  • Afrikaans: universum
• → German: Universum
  • → Hungarian: univerzum
• → Maltese: univers
• → Norwegian: univers
• → Swedish: universum
  • → Finnish: universumi

References

• “universus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “universus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• universus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to analyse a general division into its specific parts: genus universum in species certas partiri et dividere (Or. 33. 117)