campo

See also: campó and campò

English

Noun

campo ‎(plural campos)

1. (US, slang) A police officer assigned to a university campus.
   • 2005, Julia Schwent, Gohari Omid, Rice University College Prowler Off the Record (page 135)

     Baker Fountain [is] fun to run through, if you can avoid slipping or getting busted by the Campos.

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Galician

Etymology

From Latin campus. Compare English camp, Esperanto kampo, French champ, Italian campo, Portuguese campo, Romanian câmp, Sardinian càmpu, Spanish campo, Tetum kampu.

Noun

campo m ‎(plural campos)

1. field (open land area)
2. field (region affected by a force)

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin campus. Compare English camp, Esperanto kampo, French champ, Portuguese campo, Romanian câmp, Sardinian càmpu, Spanish campo, Tetum kampu.

Noun

campo m ‎(plural campi)

1. field (agricultural, sports)
2. battlefield, airfield
3. range
4. signal (mobile network)
5. shot (film)
6. (art) background (of a painting)
7. (in Venice) square (smaller than a piazza)
8. tether (the limit of one's abilities, resources etc)

Related terms

Related terms

campagna campale campata campesino campestre campetto campiello campire campo d'aviazione ‎(“airfield”) campo da calcio ‎(“football pitch”) campo di concentramento ‎(“concentration camp”)

campo di cricket ‎(“cricket pitch”) campo da golf ‎(“golf course”) campo di battaglia ‎(“battlefield”) campo di grano ‎(“cornfield”) campo da tennis ‎(“tennis court”) campo di visibilità ‎(“field of visibility”) campo giochi ‎(“play area”) campo lungo ‎(“longshot (film)”) camporella campo petrolifero ‎(“oilfield”) camposanto

Verb

campo

1. first-person singular present indicative of campare

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Latin

Noun

campō

1. dative singular of campus
2. ablative singular of campus

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese campo, from Latin campus, from Proto-Indo-European *kamp- ‎(“to bend; crooked”). Compare English camp, Esperanto kampo, French champ, Italian campo, Romanian câmp, Sardinian càmpu, Spanish campo, Tetum kampu.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): [ˈkɐ̃.pʊ]
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): [ˈkɜ̃.pʊ]
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): [ˈkɜ̃.po]

Noun

campo m (plural campos)

1. The country; the countryside

   No campo, é tranquilo‎

   In the countryside, it's peaceful

2. field, specially one where crops are grown or sports are played

Related terms

• acampar, campina, campanha, acampamento

See also

• cidade ‎(“city”)
• mar ‎(“sea”)

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Spanish

Wikipedia ^es

Etymology

From Latin campus. Compare English camp, Esperanto kampo, French champ, Italian campo, Portuguese campo, Romanian câmp, Sardinian càmpu, Tetum kampu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkampo/

• Audio (Latin America)

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Noun

campo m ‎(plural campos)

1. countryside, country

   En el campo, es tranquilo.‎

   In the countryside, it's peaceful.

2. field (domain of knowledge or practice)
3. (New Mexico, anglicism) camp
4. (physics) field

Usage notes

• Campo is a false friend, and does not mean camp. Spanish equivalents are shown in the "Translations" section of the English entry camp.

Derived terms

• campal
• campamento
• acampar

Related terms

• campesino
• campana
• campaña

Verb

campo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of campar.