Short for university, especially used informally or in abbreviations.
Univ is a modern abbreviation of 'university,' which comes from Latin 'universitas' meaning 'the whole thing' or 'general,' originally referring to a collective body of scholars in medieval times.
Universities started in medieval Europe as a radical idea—'univ' students gathered to study the whole of human knowledge in one place, which was revolutionary because before that, knowledge was scattered across monasteries and private tutors!
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