campania
English edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
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, page 52:
References edit
- ^ “campania, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Further reading edit
- “campania”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Substantivisation of Late Latin campāneus (“of fields, in a plain”), from campus (“level field”) + -āneus. Attested from the sixth century CE.[1]
Noun edit
campānia f (genitive campāniae); first declension (Late Latin)
- plain
- countryside surrounding a city
- cultivable land
Declension edit
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 edit
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
References edit
- 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[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
- 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