champignon

See also: Champignon and champigñón

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French champignon.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ʃæmˈpɪnjən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃæmˈpɪnjən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

champignon (countable and uncountable, plural champignons)

Some champignon tops, cleaned and, in one case, bisected.

1. Any mushroom of the genus Agaricus.
   1. Agaricus bisporus, a species of mushroom commonly used in cooking.
      • 1978 January 13, “Restaurants”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 July 2024:

        Galette of champignon with bacon was a wet puff pastry shell holding overcooked mushrooms and, as far as we could tell, no bacon.

      • 2007 January 31, C[hristopher] J[ohn] Chivers, “A Soviet Agricultural Success: Vast Greenhouse Complex”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 June 2013:

        Moscow’s food stores, formerly famed for bare shelves and long lines, are now kept stocked with fresh champignons and greens […] .

2. (obsolete) Any mushroom.
   • 1849, George Waterhouse, Conjugal Felicities and Infelicities, page 47:

     The Kamtschadales frequently avail themselves, by way of regale, of a venenose species of champignon […]

   • 1901 July 7, Catherine Thayer, “On the Trail of the Mushroom”, in The New York Times‎^[3], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     The first time that one steals forth in quest of the coveted but feared fungus he hides his purpose as though meditating a crime; and the memory of many warnings robs his first meal of “champignon on toast” of half its flavor.

     Referring to the fairy ring champignon.

Synonyms

• (Agaricus bisporus): button mushroom, cremini, crimini, cultivated mushroom, portobello, table mushroom

Derived terms

• fairy ring champignon

Translations

any mushroom of the genus Agaricus

• Belarusian: шампіньён m (šampinʹjón), пячуры́ца f (pjačurýca)
• Catalan: rubiol m, camperol (ca) m, rovellol m, terrerol m
• Czech: pečárka (cs) f, žampion (cs) m
• Danish: champignon (da) c
• Dutch: champignon (nl) m
• Esperanto: agariko
• Estonian: šampinjon (et)
• Finnish: herkkusieni (fi)
• French: agaric (fr) m, psalliote (fr) f
• German: Champignon (de) m
• Hungarian: csiperke (hu)
• Icelandic: kempa (is) f, ætisveppur (is) m
• Italian: champignon (it) m
• Latin: agaricus n
• Latvian: atmatene f
• Lithuanian: pievagrybis m
• Luxembourgish: Champignon m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sjampinjong m

• Polish: pieczarka (pl) f
• Portuguese: agárico m
• Romanian: ciupercă (ro) f
• Russian: шампиньо́н (ru) m (šampinʹón), печери́ца (ru) f (pečeríca)
• Serbo-Croatian: pečurka (sh) f, печурка f
• Slovak: pečiarka f, šampiňón m
• Slovene: kukmak m
• Spanish: agárico (es) m
• Swedish: champinjon (sv) c
• Ukrainian: печери́ця f (pečerýcja), шампіньйо́н m (šampinʹjón)

See also

• Agaricus bisporus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French champignon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɕɑmpʰinjʌŋ]

Noun

champignon c (singular definite champignonen, plural indefinite champignoner)

1. champignon

Declension

Declension of champignon

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	champignon	champignonen	champignoner	champignonerne
genitive	champignons	champignonens	champignoners	champignonernes

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French champignon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌʃɑmpi(n)ˈjɔn/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: cham‧pig‧non
• Rhymes: -ɔn

Noun

champignon m (plural champignons, diminutive champignonnetje n)

1. a champignon, a button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus

Derived terms

• champignonsaus
• champignonsoep

individual species

• plompe champignon (“coastal mushroom, Agaricus litoralis”)
• reuzenchampignon (“Agaricus augustus”)
• straatchampignon (“banded agaric, Agaricus bitorquis”)
• toverchampignon (“Allopsalliota geesterani”)

Further reading

• champignon on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

French

Alternative forms

• (informal) champi

Etymology

Inherited from Old French champegnuel, from Vulgar Latin *campāniolus (“grows in the field”), from Late Latin campāneus (“relating to fields”), from Latin campānia (“level country”). The “accelerator” sense comes from the fact that accelerator pedals were initially mushroom-shaped.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑ̃.pi.ɲɔ̃/

  • Audio; “un champignon”:

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): [ʃɑ̃.pĩ.jɔ̃], [ʃɑ̃.pi.ɲɔ̃]
• Homophone: champignons

Noun

champignon m (plural champignons)

1. mushroom

   Synonym: maison de crapaud f (Louisiana)

   des champignons hallucinogènes ― hallucinogenic mushroom, magic mushroom

2. fungus (in general)

   Synonym: mycète m

   Hyponyms: ascomycète, basidiomycète

3. fungal infection

   avoir des champignons ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

4. (Louisiana) mold / mould (woolly or furry growth of tiny fungi)

   Synonyms: moisi m, moisissure f

5. (informal) accelerator pedal

   Synonym: accélérateur m

   appuyer sur le champignon ― to step on it, to floor it, to put the pedal to the metal, to put one's foot down, to step on the gas

   le pied sur le champignon ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   champignon au plancher ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

6. (Louisiana, derogatory) jerk, bastard, asshole

Derived terms

• appuyer sur le champignon
• champignon chinois
• champignon de Paris
• champignonner
• champignonneux
• champignonnière
• champignonniste
• pousser comme des champignons

Descendants

• → Catalan: xampinyó
• → Crimean Tatar: şampinyon
• → Danish: champignon
• → Dutch: champignon
• → English: champignon
• → Estonian: šampinjon
• → Galician: champiñón
• → German: Champignon
• → Italian: champignon
• → Luxembourgish: Champignon
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: sjampinjong
• → Portuguese: champignon
• → Russian: шампиньо́н (šampinʹón)
• → Serbo-Croatian: šampìnjōn, шампѝњо̄н
• → Spanish: champiñón
• → Swedish: champinjon

See also

• fongique
• fongus
• moisissure
• mycélium

References

• Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities (2010; →ISBN; →ISBN), p. 119

Further reading

• “champignon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• “champignon”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse
• Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “champignon”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French champignon.

Noun

champignon m (invariable)

1. (mycology) champignon, button mushroom, crimini (Agaricus bisporus)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French champignon.

Noun

champignon m (definite singular champignonen, indefinite plural champignoner, definite plural champignonene)

1. dated spelling of sjampinjong
   • 1957, Torolf Elster, Piken med linhåret, page 11:

     Percy fikk sitt bad og gikk straks til sengs med ristet skinke og champignon og whisky.

     Percy had his bath and swiftly went to bed with grilled ham and champignon and whisky.

   • 1983, Stephen King, translated by Torfinn Haukås, De levende døde, translation of Pet Sematary, →ISBN, page 165:

     Så ringte han i forveien til pizzarestauranten Napoli og bestilte en stor pizza med pepperoni og champignon.

     He then preemptively called the pizzeria Napoli and ordered a large pizza with pepperoni and champignon.

   • 1994, Kjell Ola Dahl, Seksognitti, →ISBN, page 159:

     «Sulten?» spurte han igjen, stappet sverdet forsiktig ned i beltet. «Omelett med champignon, tomat, kjøttrester og hvitløk...»

     "Hungry?", he asked once more, stowing the sword carefully in the belt. "Omelet with champignon, tomato, leftover meat, and garlic..."

References

• Berulfsen, Bjarne; Lundeby, Einar (1959), Bokmål. A : Fullstendig liste, alle former oppført, page 20
• Wangensteen, Boye (editor; 2005), Bokmålsordboka : definisjons- og rettskrivningsordbok, →ISBN, page 147

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• champinhom, champinhão (rare)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em-der.

Proto-Indo-European *kh₂ém-po-s

Proto-Italic *kampos

Latin campus

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Italic *-nos

Latin -nus

Latin -ānus

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Indo-European *-éyos

Proto-Italic *-ejos

Proto-Italic *-eos

Latin -eus

Latin -āneus

Late Latin campāneusder.

Vulgar Latin *campāniolus

Old French champegnuel

French champignonubor.

Portuguese champignon

Unadapted borrowing from French champignon.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃɐ̃.pĩˈɲõ/ [ʃɐ̃.pĩˈj̃õ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃɐ̃.pĩˈɲõ/ [ʃɐ̃.pĩˈj̃õ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃɐ̃.piˈɲõ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃɐ̃.piˈɲõ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃɐ̃.piˈɲõ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɐ̃.piˈɲõ/

Noun

champignon m (plural champignons)

1. champignon (Agaricus bisporus, a small, edible mushroom)

Further reading

• “champignon”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026