campio

See also: campió

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *kampijō, from *kampijan (“to do battle”), from Proto-West Germanic *kamp (“field, field of battle; battle”), from Latin campus (“place or field of action”); see English champion and kemp for further discussion.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkam.pi.oː/, [ˈkämpioː]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkam.pi.o/, [ˈkämpio]

Noun

campiō m (genitive campiōnis); third declension

(Late Latin, Vulgar Latin, Medieval Latin) champion

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	campiō	campiōnēs
Genitive	campiōnis	campiōnum
Dative	campiōnī	campiōnibus
Accusative	campiōnem	campiōnēs
Ablative	campiōne	campiōnibus
Vocative	campiō	campiōnēs

Descendants

→ Albanian: kampion
→ Bulgarian: шампион (šampion)
→ Danish: champion
→ English: Campion
→ Esperanto: ĉampiono
→ Estonian: tšempion
→ Finnish: sampioni
→ Georgian: ჩემპიონი (čemṗioni)
→ Ido: championo
Italian: campione
- → Galician: campión
- → Portuguese: campeão
- → Romanian: campion
- → Spanish: campeón
  - → Cebuano: kampyon
  - → Tagalog: kampyon
→ Kazakh: чемпион (çempion)
→ Northern Kurdish: şampiyon
→ Latvian: čempions
→ Lithuanian: čempionas
→ Luxembourgish: Champion
Old Occitan:
- Catalan: campió
- Occitan: campion
Old French: champion
- → Middle English: champioun, champiun, chaumpiun, champyon, champion, schaumpion, schampyon, chaumpiun, kampyoun, chaunpyoun; kampyoun, caumpiun
  - English: champion
    - → Danish: champion
    - → German: Champion
    - → Irish: seaimpín
    - → Japanese: チャンピオン (chanpion)
    - → Korean: 챔피언 (chaempieon)
    - → Russian: чемпио́н (čempión)
      - → Armenian: չեմպիոն (čʿempion)
      - → Azerbaijani: çempion
      - → Crimean Tatar: çempion
      - → Gagauz: çempion
      - → Turkmen: çempion
      - → Yakut: чемпион (çempion)
  - Scots: champion
- French: champion
  - → Czech: šampión
  - → Slovak: šampión
  - → Turkish: şampiyon
- → Middle Dutch: campioen
  - Dutch: kampioen
    - → Indonesian: kampiun
→ Polish: czempion
→ Serbo-Croatian: шампион (šampion)
→ Swahili: championi
→ Ukrainian: чемпіон (čempion)
→ Uzbek: chempion
→ Yiddish: טשעמפּיאָן‎ (tshempyon)

References

campio 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)