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campus
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of camp.
First used in its current sense in reference to Princeton University in the 1770s.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?kæmp?s/, /?kæmp?s/
- (US) IPA(key): /?kæmp?s/
Noun
campus (plural campuses or campusses)
- The grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.
- An institution of higher education and its ambiance.
Usage notes
- The Latinate plural form campi is sometimes used, particularly with respect to colleges or universities; however, it is sometimes frowned upon. By contrast, the common plural form campuses is universally accepted.
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
Translations
Verb
campus (third-person singular simple present campuses or campusses, present participle campusing or campussing, simple past and past participle campused or campussed)
- To confine to campus as a punishment.
- To use a campus board, or to climb without feet as one would on a campus board.
- 2018, Nate Fitch, Ron Funderburke, Climbing: From First-Timer to Gym Climber: From First-Timer to Gym Climber, Rowman & Littlefield (?ISBN), page 16:
- It might be fun and educational for a novice to warm up and then visit the hangboard to experiment with all the different ... Campus. Boards. Campusing means that climbers monkey up con- secutive holds or rungs without using their feet.
- 2012, Steve Lage, Building Your Own Climbing Wall: Illustrated Instructions and Plans for Indoor and Outdoor Walls, Rowman & Littlefield (?ISBN), page 123:
- This notifies climbers they are on belay and may now begin climbing. belay station: The location of the belayer. ... rung, pulling up, then quickly snapping both hands up to the next rung, then repeating. campusing: Climbing without using feet.
- 2008, Eric Horst, Training for Climbing: The Definitive Guide to Improving Your Performance, Rowman & Littlefield (?ISBN), page 260:
- bouldering—Variable practice of climbing skills performed without a belay rope at the base of a cliff or on small boulders. campus (or campusing)—Climbing an overhanging section of rock or artificial wall with no feet, usually in a dynamic ...
- 2018, Nate Fitch, Ron Funderburke, Climbing: From First-Timer to Gym Climber: From First-Timer to Gym Climber, Rowman & Littlefield (?ISBN), page 16:
Asturian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin campus. Compare the inherited doublet campu.
Noun
campus m (plural campus)
- campus (grounds or property of a school, etc)
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin campus.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?kam.pus/
Noun
campus m (plural campus)
- campus
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English campus, from Latin campus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?m.p?s/
- Hyphenation: cam?pus
Noun
campus m (plural campussen, diminutive campusje n)
- campus
Derived terms
- campusuniversiteit
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin campus. Compare the inherited doublet champ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.pys/
Noun
campus m (plural campus)
- campus (grounds of a university)
Descendants
- ? Romanian: campus
Further reading
- “campus” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *kh?emp- (“to bend, curve”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?kam.pus/, [?kämp?s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?kam.pus/, [?k?mpus]
Noun
campus m (genitive camp?); second declension
- Open flat level ground: a plain, a natural field.
- (literary) Any flat or level surface.
- Plautus, Trin., 4, 1, 15:
- ...camp? natant?s...
- Plautus, Trin., 4, 1, 15:
- The comitia centuri?ta, which met on the Campus M?rtius.
- A field of action: scope.
- A field of debate: a topic.
- An opportunity.
- The produce of a field.
- (New Latin) The campus of a university, college, or business.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Borrowings
- Unsorted borrowings
References
- campus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- campus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- campus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- campus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Lewis, Charleton & al. "campus" in A Latin Dictionary.
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- câmpus
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin campus. Compare the inherited doublet campo.
Noun
campus m (plural campi or campus (nonstandard))
- campus
- Além das unidades localizadas nos campi Pampulha e Saúde, a UFMG possui ainda outras no centro de Belo Horizonte e bairros periféricos.
Besides units located in the Pampulha and Health campuses, UFMG has others in downtown Belo Horizonte and surrounding neighborhoods.
- Além das unidades localizadas nos campi Pampulha e Saúde, a UFMG possui ainda outras no centro de Belo Horizonte e bairros periféricos.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French campus, English campus, from Latin campus. Doublet of the inherited câmp.
Noun
campus n (plural campusuri)
- campus
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin campus. Compare the inherited doublet campo.
Noun
campus m (plural campus)
- campus
Welsh
Etymology
From camp (“feat, accomplishment”) +? -us.
Adjective
campus (feminine singular campus, plural campus, equative campused, comparative campusach, superlative campusaf)
- excellent, splendid
- Synonyms: gorchestol, rhagorol, penigamp, ardderchog, gwych
Mutation
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camp
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kæmp/
- (General American, Canada, /æ/ raising) IPA(key): [k???mp] ~ [k?e?mp]
- Rhymes: -æmp
Etymology 1
From Middle English kampe (“battlefield, open space”), from Old English camp (“battle, contest, battlefield, open space”), from Proto-West Germanic *kamp (“open field where military exercises are held, level plain”), from Latin campus (“open field, level plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh?emp- (“to bend; crooked”). Reinforced circa 1520 by Middle French can, camp (“place where an army lodges temporarily”), from Old Northern French camp, from the same Latin (whence also French champ from Old French). Cognate with Old High German champf (“battle, struggle”) (German Kampf), Old Norse kapp (“battle”), Old High German hamf (“paralysed, maimed, mutilated”). Doublet of campus.
The verb is from Middle English campen, from Old English campian, compian (“to fight, war against”), from Proto-West Germanic *kamp?n (“to fight, do battle”), from *kamp (“field, battlefield, battle”), see above. Cognate with Dutch kampen, German kämpfen (“to struggle”), Danish kæmpe, Swedish kämpa.
Noun
camp (countable and uncountable, plural camps)
- An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.
- An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
- A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
- A single hut or shelter.
- The company or body of persons encamped.
- A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
- (uncommon) Campus
- (informal) A summer camp.
- (prison slang) A prison.
- 2009, Nick Chandler, Jeanette Billings, Determined to Change: The Autobiography of Nick Chandler (page 184)
- Lantana is a sweet camp. It's an old hospital that has been converted to a drug treatment center for prisoners.
- 2009, Nick Chandler, Jeanette Billings, Determined to Change: The Autobiography of Nick Chandler (page 184)
- (agriculture) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost
- Synonyms: burrow, pie
- (obsolete) Conflict; battle.
- (Britain, obsolete) An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Derived terms
Related terms
- campus
- champerty
Descendants
Translations
Verb
camp (third-person singular simple present camps, present participle camping, simple past and past participle camped)
- To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
- To set up a camp.
- (transitive) To afford rest or lodging for.
- (video games) To stay in an advantageous location in a video game, such as next to a power-up's spawning point or in order to guard an area.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive with others in doing anything; compete.
- 1562, Leigh, The Accedens of Armory ?
- Aristotle affirmeth that Rauens will gather together on sides, and campe and fight for victorie.
- 1562, Leigh, The Accedens of Armory ?
- (intransitive, obsolete) To wrangle; argue.
Derived terms
- cample
Translations
Etymology 2
Unknown. Suggested origins include the 17th century French word camper (“to put oneself in a pose”), an assumed dialectal English word *camp or *kemp (“rough, uncouth”) and a derivation from camp (n.) Believed to be from Polari, otherwise obscure.
Noun
camp (uncountable)
- An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
camp (comparative camper, superlative campest)
- Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
- (of a man) Ostentatiously effeminate.
- 2007, David Rothwell, Dictionary of Homonyms, Wordsworth Editions ?ISBN, page 88
- More recently the word has become colloquial English for either implying that someone is a homosexual (‘he's very camp’), or for describing rather outre behaviour […]
- 2014, Sarah Lotz, The Three, Hachette UK ?ISBN
- And to be honest, in the illustration Mr Tumnus does look as camp as fuck with his little scarf tied jauntily around his neck. I suppose it isn't outside the realms of possibility that he'd just been off cottaging with some centaurs in the forest. God.
- 2007, David Rothwell, Dictionary of Homonyms, Wordsworth Editions ?ISBN, page 88
- Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying.
- 2002, Georges-Claude Guilbert, Madonna as Postmodern Myth, McFarland ?ISBN, page 123
- In Saturday Night Live, Madonna also unsurprisingly played Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe, and a Joan Collins clone, all in a very camp way. As John Dean writes: “U.S. rock has a ruling camp queen with Madonna.”
- 2002, Georges-Claude Guilbert, Madonna as Postmodern Myth, McFarland ?ISBN, page 123
Translations
Derived terms
- camp it up
- campy
Descendants
- ? Finnish: camp
- ? French: camp
- ? Spanish: camp
References
Anagrams
- CAPM, CPAM
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan camp (compare Occitan camp), from Latin campus (compare French champ, Spanish campo), from Proto-Indo-European *kh?emp- (“to bend, curve”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /?kamp/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?kam/
Noun
camp m (plural camps)
- field (open area of land)
- camp (temporary outdoor accommodation)
- field of study, discipline
- (physics) field
Synonyms
- (open area): terreny
- (camp): campament
- (discipline): disciplina
Derived terms
Related terms
- campanya
- campestre
- campió
French
Etymology 1
Probably from a Norman or Picard word equivalent to French champ (itself inherited from Old French champ and Latin), from Old Northern French camp, from Latin campus, or alternatively from Occitan camp, Old Occitan camp, possibly Italian campo. Doublet of champ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??/
- Homophones: Caen, quand, quant
Noun
camp m (plural camps)
- camp (An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.)
- Il a dressé son camp de l'autre côté de la rivière. ? He has erected his camp on the other side of the river.
- camp (Semi-temporary accommodation)
- Un camp de concentration. ? A concentration camp.
- camp (A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary)
- Les camps ennemis. ? The enemy camps.
- camp (A group of people with the same ideals or political leanings, strongly supported.)
- Ce pays est partagé en deux camps. ? This country is divided into two camps.
- camp, summer camp.
- Un camp de vacances. ? A summer camp. (idiomatic; French usage does not specify a season)
Derived terms
Related terms
- camper
- campement
- camping
- champ
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English camp.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??p/, /kamp/
Adjective
camp (invariable)
- camp (Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying, affected, exaggerated)
- Une folle camp ne peut jamais en faire trop.
Noun
camp m (uncountable)
- campness; An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.
- La tactique des Sœurs dans la lutte contre le sida repose sur une stratégie politique : une utilisation du camp, une réappropriation revendiquée de l’efféminement, de la visibilité homosexuelle et de la follitude qui visent à désarmer les injonctions morales pesant sur la sexualité – sociales, religieuses, liées au sexe, au genre, aux pratiques sexuelles…
Synonyms
- follitude
Further reading
- “camp” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English campian.
Verb
camp
- Alternative form of campen
Etymology 2
From Old Norse kampr.
Adjective
camp
- Alternative form of kempe (“shaggy”)
Norman
Alternative forms
- champ
Etymology
From Old Northern French camp (compare Old French champ), from Latin campus, from Proto-Indo-European *kamp- (“to bend; crooked”). Compare French champ.
Noun
camp m (plural camps)
- (Guernsey) field
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *kamp, from Latin campus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?mp/
Noun
camp m
- combat
Declension
Derived terms
- campd?m
- campealdor
- camp?ef?ra
- camph?d
- campl??
- campr?den
- campstede
- campung
- campw?pen
- campwudu
- campwered
Noun
camp n
- an enclosed piece of land
Descendants
- Middle English: kampe, komp, comp
- English: camp (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: camp
Old French
Etymology
Found in Old Northern French, Picard and Norman dialects, etc. From Latin campus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?kãmp]
Noun
camp m (oblique plural cans, nominative singular cans, nominative plural camp)
- camp.
- Alternative form of champ
Descendants
- Norman: camp (Guernsey)
- ? French: camp
- ? Dutch: kamp
- Afrikaans: kamp
- ? Indonesian: kamp
Welsh
Etymology
Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin campus, from the senses of "field of action, scope, opportunity, or produce of a field".
Noun
camp f (plural campau)
- feat, accomplishment
- Synonym: gorchest
- sport, contest
Derived terms
- campfa (“gymnasium, stadium”)
- campus (“excellent, splendid”)
- campwaith (“masterpiece”)
- campwr (“champion”)
Mutation
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