Where does “campsite” come from?
Campsite comes from English camp and site, where camp derives from Middle English kampe, Old English camp, and Latin campus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European kamp-.
campsite (English): A place where a tent may be or is pitched
Definitions
- A place where a tent may be or is pitched
Ancestry of “campsite”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | site | Sorrow, grief; The place where anything is fixed;... |
| 2 | Middle English | site | — |
| 3 | Anglo-Norman | site | site; location |
| 4 | Latin | situs | permitted, allowed, suffered, having been... |
| 5 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |