different between campus vs champerty

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)

1. The grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.

2. 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.

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Verb

campus (third-person singular simple present campuses or campusses, present participle campusing or campussing, simple past and past participle campused or campussed)

1. To confine to campus as a punishment.
2. 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 ...

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin campus. Compare the inherited doublet campu.

Noun

campus m (plural campus)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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

1. Open flat level ground: a plain, a natural field.

2. (literary) Any flat or level surface.
   • Plautus, Trin., 4, 1, 15:

     ...camp? natant?s...

3. The comitia centuri?ta, which met on the Campus M?rtius.
4. A field of action: scope.
5. A field of debate: a topic.
6. An opportunity.
7. The produce of a field.
8. (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))

1. 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.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French campus, English campus, from Latin campus. Doublet of the inherited câmp.

Noun

campus n (plural campusuri)

1. campus

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin campus. Compare the inherited doublet campo.

Noun

campus m (plural campus)

1. campus

Welsh

Etymology

From camp (“feat, accomplishment”) +? -us.

Adjective

campus (feminine singular campus, plural campus, equative campused, comparative campusach, superlative campusaf)

1. excellent, splendid

   Synonyms: gorchestol, rhagorol, penigamp, ardderchog, gwych

Mutation

English

Etymology

From Middle English champartie, from Middle French champart (“field rent (portion of produce of field paid to feudal lord)”), probably from Latin camp? (“fields”) + pars (“part”).

Noun

champerty (countable and uncountable, plural champerties)

1. (law) The investing of money into an individual's lawsuit.

Related terms

• camp
• campus
• champart
• champertous
• champertor

See also

• barratry

References