campus

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

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkæmpəs/, /ˈkæmpʊs/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæmpəs/
Audio (US) (file)

Noun

campus (plural campuses or campusses)

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.
- 2019, Li Huang; James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, DOI:10.1080/01434632.2019.1596115, page 5:
  In addition to this signage there are promotional videos broadcast in English on television screens around the campus.
The campus is sixty hectares in size.
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

big man on campus
campus carry
closed campus
off-campus/ on-campus
satellite campus

Related terms

camp
campi (nonstandard plural)
champerty

Descendants

→ Cebuano: kampus
→ Dutch: campus
→ German: Campus
→ Japanese: キャンパス (kyanpasu)
→ Korean: 캠퍼스 (kaempeoseu)
→ Malay: kampus
- Indonesian: kampus

Translations

grounds or property of a school, etc.

Arabic: حَرَم اَلْجَامِعَة‎ m (ḥaram al-jāmiʿa)
Asturian: campus m
Bulgarian: ка́мпус m (kámpus)
Catalan: campus (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 校園／校园 (zh) (xiàoyuán)
Czech: kampus (cs) m, areál (cs) m
Dutch: campus (nl) m
Ewe: kpodzi n
Finnish: kampus (fi)
French: campus (fr) m
Galician: campus m
German: Campus (de) m, Universitätsgelände (de) n, Unigelände n (colloquial), Hochschulgelände n
Hebrew: קמפוס‎ (he) m (kampus)
Indonesian: kampus (id)
Irish: campas m
Japanese: キャンパス (ja) (kyanpasu)
Korean: 캠퍼스 (ko) (kaempeoseu)
Malay: kampus
Maori: papa akoranga
Persian: پردیس‎ (fa) (pardis)
Polish: kampus (pl) m
Portuguese: campus (pt) m
Romanian: campus (ro), teren universitar
Russian: ка́мпус (ru) m (kámpus)
Scottish Gaelic: àrainn f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: кампус m
Roman: kampus (sh) m
Spanish: campus (es) m
Swedish: campus (sv) n
Turkish: kampüs (tr), yerleşke (tr)
Ukrainian: ка́мпус m (kámpus)
Vietnamese: khuôn viên (vi), khu học xá, sân trường, cơ sở (vi)

An institution of higher education and its ambiance

Ewe: kpodzi n
Irish: campas m
Japanese: キャンパス (ja) (kyanpasu)
Korean: 캠퍼스 (ko) (kaempeoseu)
Maori: papa akoranga
Russian: ка́мпус (ru) m (kámpus)
Vietnamese: khu trường

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Telugu: ^{(please verify)} ఆవర (āvara)

Verb

campus (third-person singular simple present campuses or campusses, present participle campusing or campussing, simple past and past participle campused or campussed)

To confine to campus as a punishment.
- 1932, The Syllabus, volume 48, page 444:
  They hold sessions regularly and “campus” women for staying out late—and they do their best campussing at those times when they are sleepiest and meanest from being out until three and four themselves the night before.
- 1955, The Twentieth Century, volume 157, page 278:
  A secondary punishment was ‘campussing’, or confinement to a campus; and for the most trivial offences the treatment was a withering harangue from Mrs Wilmington, sometimes lasting for over an hour.
- 1996 January 30, quoting Maggie Smith, Evergreen School, “Attendance Issues”, in The 1996 Collection: Prepared for Sudbury Schools and Planning Groups, Framingham, Massachusetts: Sudbury Valley School Press, published August 1996, →ISBN, page 131:
  SM has been very patient but just last Friday one of them was campussed for two weeks with an automatic two day suspension if he didn't heed the campussing because of repeated contempt for fairly easy to fulfill sentences.
To use a campus board, or to climb without feet as one would on a campus board.
- 2018, Nate Fitch; Ron Funderburke, Climbing: From First-Timer to Gym Climber: From First-Timer to Gym Climber, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 16:
  It might be fun and educational for a novice to warm up and then visit the hangboard to experiment with all the different ... Campus. Boards. Campusing means that climbers monkey up con- secutive holds or rungs without using their feet.
- 2012, Steve Lage, Building Your Own Climbing Wall: Illustrated Instructions and Plans for Indoor and Outdoor Walls, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 123:
  This notifies climbers they are on belay and may now begin climbing. belay station: The location of the belayer. ... rung, pulling up, then quickly snapping both hands up to the next rung, then repeating. campusing: Climbing without using feet.
- 2008, Eric Horst, Training for Climbing: The Definitive Guide to Improving Your Performance, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 260:
  bouldering—Variable practice of climbing skills performed without a belay rope at the base of a cliff or on small boulders. campus (or campusing)—Climbing an overhanging section of rock or artificial wall with no feet, usually in a dynamic ...

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin campus. Compare the inherited doublet campu.

Noun

campus m (plural campus)

campus (grounds or property of a school, etc)

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin campus.

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkam.pus/

Noun

campus m (plural campus)

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)

campus

Derived terms

campusuniversiteit

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin campus. Compare the inherited doublet champ.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kɑ̃.pys/
Audio (file)

Noun

campus m (plural campus)

campus (grounds of a university)

Descendants

→ Romanian: campus
→ Turkish: kampüs

Latin

A model of the Campus Martius under the Empire.

Etymology

Traditionally, from Proto-Italic *kampos, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂ém-po-s, from *kh₂emp- (“to bend, curve; smooth”), making it an exact cognate of Lithuanian kam̃pas (“corner”) and Ancient Greek καμπ- (kamp-). Compare camur (“curved, bent”) for the root without a -p- suffix.

Alternatively, perhaps an agricultural term borrowed from a substrate language; this would explain the irregular correspondences between Latin and Greek.[1]

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkam.pus/, [ˈkämpʊs̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkam.pus/, [ˈkämpus]

Noun

campus m (genitive campī); second declension

Open flat level ground: a plain, a natural field.
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.691-692:
  ‘hoc’ ait ‘in campō’ (campumque ostendit) ‘habēbat
  rūs breve cum dūrō parca colōna virō.’
  “In this plain,” he says (and he shows me the plain), “a thrifty countrywoman was maintaining a little farm along with her sturdy husband.”
Campus Mārtius ― The Field of Mars
(literary) Any flat or level surface.
- Plautus, Trin., 4, 1, 15:
  ...campī natantēs...
The comitia centuriāta, which met on the Campus Mārtius.
A field of action: scope.
A field of debate: a topic.
An opportunity.
The produce of a field.
(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

campagus
campāna
campāneus
Campānia
campānius
camparāius
campensis
campester
campicellum
campicursiō
campidoctor
campigenus
campiō
campulus

Descendants

Eastern Romance
- Aromanian: cãmpu, chemp
- Megleno-Romanian: cǫmp
- Romanian: câmp
Franco-Provençal: champ
Gallo-Italic
- Emilian: canp
- Ligurian: cànpo, campós
- Lombard: canp
- Piedmontese: camp
- Romagnol: câmp
Italo-Dalmatian
- Corsican: campu
- Dalmatian: cuomp
- Italian: campo
- Sicilian: campu
Old French: champ, chanp
- Middle French: champ
  - French: champ
    - → English: champ
- Walloon: tchamp
Old Northern French: camp
- Norman: camp (Guernsey)
- → French: camp
- → Dutch: kamp
  - Afrikaans: kamp
  - Petjo: kamp
  - → Indonesian: kamp
  - → Sranan Tongo: kampu
    - → Caribbean Javanese: kampu
Old Occitan:
- Catalan: camp
- Occitan: camp
Rhaeto-Romance
- Friulian: cjamp, čhamp
- Ladin: ciamp
- Romansch: champ, camp, tgomp
Sardinian: campu
Venetian: canpo, camp, canp, campo
West Iberian
- Extremaduran: campu
- Aragonese: campo
- Old Leonese:
  - Asturian: campu, campo, quempu
  - Leonese: campu
- Mirandese: campo
- Old Portuguese: campo
  - Fala: campu
  - Galician: campo
  - Portuguese: campo
    - Guinea-Bissau Creole: kampu
    - → Tetum: kampu
- Old Spanish: campo
  - Spanish: campo

Borrowings

→ Asturian: campus
→ Bulgarian: кампус (kampus)
→ Byzantine Greek: κάμπος (kámpos)
- Greek: κάμπος (kámpos)
→ Catalan: campus
→ Czech: kampus
→ English: campus (see there for further descendants)
→ Finnish: kampus
→ French: campus
- → Romanian: campus
- → Turkish: kampüs
→ Galician: campus
→ Hebrew: קמפוס‎ (kampus)
→ Irish: campas
→ Macedonian: кампус (kampus)
→ Polish: kampus
→ Portuguese: campus, câmpus
→ Russian: кампус (kampus)
→ Serbo-Croatian: kampus / кампус
→ Spanish: campus
→ Swedish: campus
→ Turkish: kampüs
→ Ukrainian: кампус (kampus)
→ Proto-West Germanic: *kamp (see there for further descendants)

Unsorted borrowings

→ Albanian: kamp
→ Basque: kanpo
→ Hindi: कैंप (kaimp)
→ Ngazidja Comorian: kampi
→ Slovene: kamp
→ Turkish: kamp
→ Urdu: کیمپ‎ (kaimp)
→ Welsh: camp

References

De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “campus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 86

Portuguese

Alternative forms

câmpus

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin campus. Compare the inherited doublet campo.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ̃.pus/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ̃.puʃ/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ̃.puʃ/

Noun

campus m (plural campi or (nonstandard) campus)

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)

campus

Declension

Declension of campus

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) campus	campusul	(niște) campusuri	campusurile
genitive/dative	(unui) campus	campusului	(unor) campusuri	campusurilor
vocative	campusule		campusurilor

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin campus. Compare the inherited doublet campo.

Noun

campus m (plural campus)

campus

Welsh

Etymology

From camp (“feat, accomplishment”) +‎ -us.

Adjective

campus (feminine singular campus, plural campus, equative campused, comparative campusach, superlative campusaf)

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.

[1] De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “campus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 86

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