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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 analyze it …
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Jan 21, 2022 · The University of Berlin itself was established as a universitas litterarum, which means "community of letters, of humanistic learning transmitted through writing". The first word …
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Jan 29, 2022 · Meaning of “universitas litterarum“? This text I am reading says that the University of Berlin had a ‘universitas litterarum‘. What does that mean? meaning Sasan 153 asked Jan 21, 2022 …
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