Where does “campaign” come from?
Campaign comes from French campagne, from Italian campagna, from Latin campus meaning "field," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European kh₂em-.
campaign (English): A series of operations undertaken to achieve a...
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- A series of operations undertaken to achieve a...
Ancestry of “campaign”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | campagne | country (the country, rural area, as opposed to the town or city), countryside |
| 2 | Italian | campagna | rural area: country, countryside; cultivated... |
| 3 | Latin | campānia | — |
| 4 | Latin | campus | Open flat level ground: a plain, a natural field;... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂emp- | to bend; crooked; to bend, curve |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂em- | to bend, to curve |