The word for a university in many languages (not Finnish though!) comes from the Latin word universitas. The word appears to mean roughly "the whole", but one might also …

Jan 21, 2022 · The last, most familiar use comes from the increasingly common use of expressions (in charters, official documents, etc.) like universitas magistrorum et scholarium …

Jun 29, 2023 · From what I remember, using humanitas for humanity isn't considered good Latin. Things like gens humana or genus humanum or even universitas humana. That would make …

Jul 12, 2021 · For example, instead of monstr (u)osum, you could say immane, but that is often used to talk about monstrous size. Since the universe actually is very big, that would probably …

Dec 28, 2023 · In what sense is a university (universitas) a whole? The word for a university in many languages (not Finnish though!) comes from the Latin word universitas. The word …

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In what sense is a university (universitas) a whole? The word for a university in many languages (not Finnish though!) comes from the Latin word universitas. The word appears to mean …

In what sense is a university (universitas) a whole? vocabulary academic-latin Joonas Ilmavirta ♦ 119k modified Feb 23, 2021 at 21:45 10votes 1 365views

Mar 4, 2017 · One tip to improve your question: the question in the title ("largest community") is pretty different from the two questions in the body ("active community" and "where can I …

Oct 31, 2021 · For a book (let's say on cryptozoology) I need to come up with a scientific name for bigfoot. I'm thinking of using a literal translation of bigfoot for the genus. As typical in scientific …