Where does “champ clos” come from?
champ clos (French) comes from French champ, from Middle French champ, from Old French champ, from Latin campus, from Proto-Indo-European kh₂emp-, from Proto-Indo-European kh₂em- — to bend, to curve.
champ clos (French): champ clos field officially set aside for the fighting of a knightly duel or tournament; area enclosed by the lists
Definitions
- champ clos field officially set aside for the fighting of a knightly duel or tournament; area enclosed by the lists
Ancestry of “champ clos”, step by step
champ clos traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French champ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | champ | field in its various senses, "including" |
| 2 | Middle French | champ | field |
| 3 | Old French | champ | field; battlefield |
| 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 |
via French clos
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | clos | past participle of clore; closed, shut; shut in,... |
| 2 | Latin | clausum | enclosed space, enclosure; nominative neuter... |
| 3 | Latin | clausus | closed, inaccessible; having been closed;... |
| 4 | Latin | claudere | present active infinitive of claudō;... |
| 5 | Latin | claudo | I shut, close, lock; I imprison, confine; I... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | klaudō | close |