This word, which includes all things both in the heavens and on the earth, the whole system of created things (lit. turned into one or combined into one whole), is from the Latin universum (composed of unus, one, and verto, verti, versum, vertere, to turn).
From unus derive the words:
From vertere derive the words:
BTW, the word university is derived from the Latin universities magistrorum et scholarium which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". The idea is that the teachers and scholars are combined to be one whole entity.
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From unus derive the words:
- one
- alone (all + one)
- unit
- unite
- unison (one + sound)
- unanimous (one-minded, as animus=mind)
- unicorn (one-horned animal, as cornu is Latin for horn)
- Unitarian
- onion (through French oignon, from Latin unio, as having but one bulb.)
From vertere derive the words:
- version
- vertebrae (the joints of our backbone by which we are able to turn)
- conversation (originally referred to living with another person, literally means "turn with" another person)
- vertigo (feeling of dizziness that comes from one spinning or turning in circles)
- avert (to turn from, as the prefix ab- is assimilated to a-)
- revert (to turn back)
- convert (to turn with)
- subvert (to turn or throw under)
- invert, inverse (to turn in)
- pervert (to turn away from a right religious belief to a false one)
BTW, the word university is derived from the Latin universities magistrorum et scholarium which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". The idea is that the teachers and scholars are combined to be one whole entity.
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