campania
See also: campanià, Campania, Campânia, and Campània
English
Etymology
From Italian campagna, respelled after its etymon Late Latin campānia (“open country, battlefield”) (compare the region Campania), from Latin campus (“field”).[1] Doublet of campaign, campagna, and champagne.
Noun
campania (plural campanias)
- (obsolete) Open country.
- 1672, William Temple, “An Essay upon the Original and Nature of Government. […]”, in Miscellanea. The First Part. [...], 3rd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], and Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 1691, OCLC 1113628240, page 52:
- The contrary of all this happens in Countries thin inhabited, and eſpecially in vaſtCampania’s, ſuch as are extended through Aſia and Africk, where there are few Cities, beſides what grow by the Reſidence of the Kings or their Governours.
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References
- “campania, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Further reading
- campania in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Latin
Alternative forms
- campānea
Etymology
Substantivisation of Late Latin campāneus (“of fields, in a plain”), from campus (“level field”) + -āneus. Attested from the sixth century CE.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance) IPA(key): /kamˈpaɲɲa/
Noun
campānia f (genitive campāniae); first declension (Late Latin, Medieval Latin)
- plain
- countryside surrounding a city
- cultivable land
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | campānia | campāniae |
Genitive | campāniae | campāniārum |
Dative | campāniae | campāniīs |
Accusative | campāniam | campāniās |
Ablative | campāniā | campāniīs |
Vocative | campānia | campāniae |
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: campagna (see there for further descendants)
- Neapolitan: campagna
- Sicilian: campagna
- North Italian:
- Romansch: champagna
- Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: campanya
- Occitan: campanha
- Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: champagne, campaigne (northern)
- French: champagne, campagne, Champagne (see there for further descendants)
- Norman: campagne
- Old French: champagne, campaigne (northern)
- Ibero-Romance:
- Portuguese: campanha
- Spanish: campaña
References
- campania 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)
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “campania”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, OCLC 1369101
- campania in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “campanius”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 122
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “campania”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 153