Etymology

campagnol

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Today it means: A vole (US, Canada: field mouse), Microtus agrestis that often does great damage in fields and gardens by feeding on roots and seeds. Full definition →

French campagnol ← Italian campagnolo
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The story

  1. Italian · derived fromcampagnolo
  2. French · borrowed fromcampagnol“vole”
  3. English todaycampagnol

Borrowed from French campagnol (“vole”), from Italian campagnolo.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.