komunitas

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin commūnitās (“community; public spirit”).

• Displaced from earlier komuniteit suffixed from Dutch -iteit

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [komuˈnitas]
• Hyphenation: ko‧mu‧ni‧tas

Noun

komunitas (plural komunitas-komunitas, first-person possessive komunitasku, second-person possessive komunitasmu, third-person possessive komunitasnya)

1. community.

   Synonyms: masyarakat, paguyuban

Alternative forms

• komuniti (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Affixed terms

• berkomunitas

 

Related terms

• koman
• komunal
• komune
• komuni
• komunikan
• komunikasi
• komunike
• komunis
• komunisme
• komunistis
• telekomunikasi

 

Further reading

• “komunitas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.