campo

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From camp(us) +‎ -o.

campo (plural campos)

1. (US, slang) A police officer assigned to a university campus.
   • 2005, Julia Schwent, Gohari Omid, Rice University College Prowler Off the Record, page 135:

     Baker Fountain [is] fun to run through, if you can avoid slipping or getting busted by the Campos.

From Spanish campo and/or Portuguese campo. Doublet of camp and campus.

campo (plural campos)

1. A field or plain in a Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking area.
   • 1853, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Zoology, Botany, and Geology, page 468:

     [...], from the bare table-land of Mexico, and their great scarcity on the open campos of the interior of Brasil.

   • 1890, The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, page 226:

     The name Serlao, meaning originally the interior as distinguished from the maritime country, has come to be applied to dry, hilly, and stony districts of the campos only suited for pasture. To the agricultural coast belt of the eastern provinces [...]

   • 1892, Almont Barnes, Report on the Agriculture of South America: With Maps and Latest Statistics of Trade, page 78:

     The vegetation of this part of Brazil is characteristic of the campos (plains).

   • 1968, Roy Nash, The Conquest of Brazil, Biblo & Tannen Publishers, →ISBN, page 74:

     Characteristically, the campos of Brazil show scattered woody vegetation. Open grasslands are interlarded between various types of woodland pasture in a way impossible to indicate on a small-scale map, [...]

• mo-cap, mocap

campo

1. first-person singular present indicative of campar

From Old Galician-Portuguese campo, from Latin campus. Compare Portuguese and Spanish campo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkampo/ [ˈkɑm.pʊ]
• Rhymes: -ampo

campo m (plural campos)

1. field (open land area)
   • 1343, Cal Pardo, Enrique (ed.), Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 143:

     o canpo do çimiterio da iglesia da dita villa de Ribadeu

     the cemetery field of the church of this town of Ribadeo

2. meadow, pasture
   • 1280, M. Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). 3 vols. Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 1090:

     Fernan Eanes, yrmao do mayordomo, veo a os canpos de Carraszedo et thomoulle LII ovellas et adussellas per Cedeyra

     Fernán Eanes, the butler's brother, came to the pastures of Carracedo and took 52 sheep from him and took them to Cedeira

3. (sports) field
4. (heraldry) field
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 613:

     en meogo do escudo, en que tragía hũa agia d'ouro et o canpo uerde

     in the middle of the shield, where it had a golden eagle on green field

5. (physics) field (region affected by a force)
6. farmland
7. plaza
8. battleground; battlefield
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 565:

     Pois que el rrey Menõ fuj morto, os troiãos leixarõ o canpo

     after king Menon was dead the Trojans left the battleground

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “canpo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “campo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “canpo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “campo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “campo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “campo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈkam.po/
• Rhymes: -ampo
• Hyphenation: càm‧po

From Latin campus (“wild field”). Compare English camp.

campo m (plural campi)

1. (sports, agriculture) field

   campo da tennis ― tennis court

2. battlefield, airfield

   campo di battaglia ― battlefield

3. range
4. signal (mobile network)
5. (film) shot

   campo lungo ― long shot

6. (art) background (of a painting)
7. (in Venice) square (smaller than a piazza)
8. tether (the limit of one's abilities, resources etc.)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

campo

1. first-person singular present indicative of campare

campō

1. dative/ablative singular of campus

• canpo (alternative spelling)

From Latin campus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkampo/

campo m (plural campos)

1. field, open plain
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 63v:

     é aduxom al cãpo é era pleno de hueſſos e fizom trocir ſobrellos aderedor é eran muchos ſobre fazeſ del cãpo e eran ſecos muchoſ

     And He lead me to the field, and it was full of bones, and He made me pass over them all around. And there were many on the surface of the field, and they were very dry.

• Spanish: campo
  • → English: camp; campo
  • → Ye'kwana: kamju

From Old Galician-Portuguese campo, from Latin campus (“wild field”). Doublet of campus, a borrowing from Latin. Compare Galician and Spanish campo.

• Hyphenation: cam‧po

campo m (plural campos)

1. country; countryside

   Coordinate terms: cidade, mar

   O campo é tranquilo ― The countryside is peaceful

   Uma casa no campo. ― A house in the countryside.

2. field (large open area, especially one where crops are grown or sports are played)
3. field (domain of knowledge or practice)
4. (physics) field

   campo magnético ― magnetic field

• campo magnético

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: kampu
• → Tetum: kampu

campo

1. first-person singular present indicative of campar

• IPA^(key): /ˈkampo/ [ˈkãm.po]

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• Rhymes: -ampo
• Syllabification: cam‧po

Inherited from Old Spanish campo, from Latin campus (“wild field”). Compare Portuguese campo.

campo m (plural campos)

1. countryside, country

   Synonym: paisaje

   En el campo, es tranquilo.

   In the countryside, it's peaceful.

2. field (large open area)
3. (sports) pitch, (US) field (field on which soccer, rugby or field hockey is played)

   Synonym: cancha

   campo de fútbol ― soccer field

4. (golf) course

   Synonym: (Latin America) cancha

   campo de golf ― golf course

5. field (domain of knowledge or practice)
6. (New Mexico, anglicism) camp
7. (physics) field

   Synonym: cuerpo

• Campo is a false friend and does not mean camp. The Spanish word for camp is campamento or acampar.

• → English: camp; campo
• → Ye'kwana: kamju

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

campo

1. first-person singular present indicative of campar

• “campo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024