Expertlatin
The University of Berlin itself was established as a universitas litterarum, which means "community of letters, of humanistic learning transmitted through writing".
- What does the term Universitas mean?
- What did Universitas mean in medieval times?
- What does Universitas mean in Latin?
What does the term Universitas mean?
Latin, literally, totality.
What did Universitas mean in medieval times?
The first 'university' in the academic sense formed in Bologna in the eleventh century, where students from various regions (called 'nationes') banded together to form a larger association – the universitas (Latin for 'the whole') representing the entire student community – as a means of increasing their bargaining ...
What does Universitas mean in Latin?
Universitas is a Latin word meaning "the whole, total, the universe, the world", or in Roman law a society or corporation; the latter sense is where the word university is derived from.
