campus

Borrowed from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of camp.

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

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

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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.

• 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.

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

1. To confine to campus as a punishment.

Borrowed from Latin campus. Compare the inherited doublet campu.

campus m (plural campus)

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

Borrowed from Latin campus.

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

campus m (plural campus)

1. campus

Borrowed from English campus.

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• Hyphenation: cam‧pus

campus m (plural campussen, diminutive campusje n)

1. campus

Borrowed from Latin campus. Compare the inherited doublet champ.

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campus m (plural campus)

1. campus (of university)

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

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

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

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.
8. (New Latin) The campus of a university, college, or business.

Second declension.

• 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.

• câmpus

Borrowed from Latin campus. Compare the inherited doublet campo.

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.

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

campus n (plural campusuri)

1. campus

Borrowed from Latin campus. Compare the inherited doublet campo.

campus m (plural campus)

1. campus

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

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

1. excellent, splendid

   Synonyms: gorchestol, rhagorol, penigamp, ardderchog, gwych