campus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin campus (“field”).

First used in its current sense in reference to Princeton University in the 1770s.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkæmpəs/, /ˈkæmpʊs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkæmpəs/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

campus (plural campuses)

1. 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.

   The campus is sixty hectares in size.

2. An institution of higher education and its ambiance.

   During the late 1960s, many an American campus was in a state of turmoil.

Verb

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

1. To confine to campus as a punishment.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin campus. Compare the inherited doublet campu.

Noun

campus m (plural campus)

1. campus (grounds or property of a school, etc)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin campus.

Noun

campus m (plural campus)

1. campus

Etymology

Borrowed from English campus.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: cam‧pus

Noun

campus m (plural campussen, diminutive campusje n)

1. campus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin campus. Compare the inherited doublet champ.

Noun

campus m (plural campus)

1. campus (of university)

Further reading

• “campus” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (“to bend, curve”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

campus m (genitive campī); second declension

1. Open flat level ground: a plain, a natural field.

   Campus Martius ― The Field of Mars

2. (literary) Any flat or level surface.
   • Plautus, Trin., 4, 1, 15:

     ...campi natantes...

3. The comitia centuriata, which met on the Campus Martius.
4. A field of action: scope.
5. A field of debate: a topic.
6. An opportunity.
7. The produce of a field.

References

• campus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• campus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• campus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• campus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Lewis, Charleton & al. "campus" in A Latin Dictionary.

Alternative forms

• câmpus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin campus. Compare the inherited doublet campo.

Noun

campus m (plural campi or campus (nonstandard))

1. 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.

Etymology

Borrowed from French campus, English campus, from Latin campus. Doublet of the inherited câmp.

Noun

campus n (plural campusuri)

1. campus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin campus. Compare the inherited doublet campo.

Noun

campus m (plural campus)

1. campus