campio

See also: campió

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *kampijō, from *kampijan (“to do battle”), from Proto-West Germanic *kamp (“field, field of battle; battle”), from Latin campus (“place or field of action”); see English champion and kemp for further discussion.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkam.pi.oː/, [ˈkämpioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkam.pi.o/, [ˈkämpio]

Noun

campiō m (genitive campiōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin, Vulgar Latin, Medieval Latin) champion

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	campiō	campiōnēs
genitive	campiōnis	campiōnum
dative	campiōnī	campiōnibus
accusative	campiōnem	campiōnēs
ablative	campiōne	campiōnibus
vocative	campiō	campiōnēs

Descendants

• Albanian: kampion
• Armenian: չեմպիոն (čʻempion)
• Azerbaijani: çempion
• Bulgarian: шампион (šampion)
• Catalan: campió
• Crimean Tatar: çempion
• Czech: šampión
• Danish: champion

• Dutch: kampioen
• English: champion, Campion
• Esperanto: ĉampiono
• Estonian: tšempion
• Finnish: sampioni
• French: champion
• Galician: campión
• Georgian: ჩემპიონი (čemṗioni)

• German: (via English and French) Champion
• Ido: championo
• Irish: seaimpín
• Italian: campione
• Japanese: チャンピオン
• Kazakh: чемпион (çempion)
• Korean: 챔피언 (chaempieon)
• Kurdish: şampiyon

• Latvian: čempions
• Lithuanian: čempionas
• Luxembourgish: Champion
• Polish: czempion
• Portuguese: campeão
• Romanian: campion
• Russian: чемпион (čempion)
• Serbo-Croatian: шампион (šampion)

• Slovak: šampión
• Spanish: campeón
• Swahili: championi
• Turkish: şampiyon
• Turkmen: çempion
• Ukrainian: чемпіон (čempion)
• Uzbek: chempion
• Yiddish: טשעמפּיאָן (tshempyon)

References

• campio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)