campus

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See also: Campus and câmpus

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

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Noun

campus (plural campuses)

  1. The grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.
    • 2013 August 24, Schumpeter, “Mr Geek goes to Washington”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8850:
      From their corporate campuses on the west coast, America’s technology entrepreneurs used to ignore faraway Washington, DC—or mention the place only to chastise it for holding back innovation with excessive regulation. They have, at times, invested in the low politics of self-interested lobbying […]. Yet unlike Wall Street […] tech tycoons have remained largely aloof from the broader affairs of the nation’s capital.
    The campus is sixty hectares in size.
  2. An institution of higher education and its ambiance.
    During the late 1960s, many an American campus was in a state of turmoil.

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

Translations

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Verb

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  1. To confine to campus as a punishment.

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

Noun

campus m (invariable)

  1. campus

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English campus, from Latin campus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑm.pʏs/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: cam‧pus

Noun

campus m (plural campussen, diminutive campusje n)

  1. campus

Derived terms

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin campus. Compare the inherited doublet champ.

Pronunciation

Noun

campus m (plural campus)

  1. campus (of university)

Further reading

Latin

A model of the Campus Martius under the Empire.

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (“to bend, curve”).

Pronunciation

Noun

campus m (genitive campī); second declension

  1. Open flat level ground: a plain, a natural field.
    Campus Mārtius ― The Field of Mars
  2. (literary) Any flat or level surface.
    • Plautus, Trin., 4, 1, 15:
      ...campī natantēs...
  3. The comitia centuriāta, which met on the Campus Mārtius.
  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.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative campus campī
Genitive campī campōrum
Dative campō campīs
Accusative campum campōs
Ablative campō campīs
Vocative campe campī

Derived terms

Descendants

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • campus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Lewis, Charleton & al. "campus" in A Latin Dictionary.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin campus. Compare the inherited doublet campo.

Noun

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  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

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
campus gampus nghampus champus
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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