Etymology

campus

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Today it means: The grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures. Full definition →

Latin campus
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromcampus“field”
  2. English todaycampus

Borrowed from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of camp and champ. First used in its current sense in reference to Princeton University in the 1770s.

Words from the same roots

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