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”). Doublet of campaign, campagna, and champagne.

Noun

campania (plural campanias)

1. (obsolete) Open country.
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     The contrary of all this happens in Countries thin inhabited, and eſpecially in vaſt Campania’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.

Further reading

• “campania”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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.

Noun

campānia f (genitive campāniae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. plain
2. countryside surrounding a city
3. 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
  • Venetan: campagna
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: campanya
  • Occitan: campanha
  • Old French: champagne, campaigne (northern)
    • French: champagne, campagne, Champagne (see there for further descendants)
    • Norman: campagne
• 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^[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