Translation
universal; general, applying to everyone
Word origin
From Latin universalis, belonging to the whole, from universum ('the whole turned into one'). The same root gives English universe, university and universal.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- universalis
- English cognates
- universal, universe, university
Examples
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Esperanto wants to be a universal language.
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The Universal Congress takes place every summer.
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That is a universal problem in every country.
No word in the language carries more institutional weight. - is the movement's main body and the its annual meeting, so a learner meets as a proper name long before meeting it as an ordinary adjective. In ordinary use it means what English means: applying to everyone, with no exceptions worth naming.
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