campion

See also: Campion and campión

English

Red campion, Silene dioica

Wikispecies

Wikispecies

Etymology

Likely from Middle English campion, a variant of champioun; see champion. In classical times, the rose campion was fitted in garlands used to crown victors.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæmpiən/

Noun

campion (plural campions)

1. Some flowering plants of the genus Lychnis.
2. Any flowering plant of the genus Silene.
   • 1918, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “[Poem 63]”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 83:

     Then over his turnèd temples—here— / Was a rose, or, failing that, / Rough-Robin or five-lipped campion clear / For a beauty-bow to his hat, […]

Translations

Lychnis

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• Faroese: akkuleya f, leygingargras n
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• Finnish: käenkukka (fi)
• German: Pechnelke f
• Russian: зо́рька (ru) f (zórʹka)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

Silene

• Bulgarian: плюскавиче n (pljuskaviče)
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• Faroese: bjargablóma f, túvublóma f
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• Finnish: kohokki (fi)
• German: Leimkraut n
• Russian: смолёвка (ru) f (smoljóvka)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

References

• “campion”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian campione, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin campio, campionem, from Frankish *kampijō (or a Lombardic equivalent) from Proto-Germanic *kampijô, based on Latin campus (“level ground”); cf. also French champion.

Noun

campion m (plural campioni, feminine equivalent campioană)

1. champion

Related terms

• câmp