campagna

Borrowed from Italian campagna, from Late Latin campānia.

campagna (plural campagne)

1. (dated) A flat stretch of countryside; open rural plain.

From Late Latin campānia (whence also Spanish campaña, Portuguese campanha, Occitan campanha, French champagne), from campāneus, based on Latin campus (“level field”). Doublet of champagne, borrowed from French.

• IPA^(key): /kamˈpaɲ.ɲa/

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• Rhymes: -aɲɲa
• Hyphenation: cam‧pà‧gna

campagna f (plural campagne)

1. rural area: country, countryside
2. cultivated land: farmland, land
3. (figuratively) campaign
4. (heraldry) base; lower part of the field

• → French: campagne (“campaign”)

• rurale

• campagna on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it