German

Noun

Campus m ‎(genitive Campus, plural Campusse or Campus)

1. campus (central premises of an educational institution)

Usage notes

• Universities in German-speaking countries often do not have a campus, but are scattered over the city centre.

Declension

English

Noun

campus ‎(plural campuses)

1. The grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.
   • 2013 August 24, Schumpeter, “Mr Geek goes to Washington”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8850:

     From their corporate campuses on the west coast, America’s technology entrepreneurs used to ignore faraway Washington, DC—or mention the place only to chastise it for holding back innovation with excessive regulation. They have, at times, invested in the low politics of self-interested lobbying […]. Yet unlike Wall Street […] tech tycoons have remained largely aloof from the broader affairs of the nation’s capital.

   The campus is sixty hectares in size.‎

2. An institution of higher education and its ambiance.

   During the late 1960s, many an American campus was in a state of turmoil.‎

Usage notes

• The Latinate plural form campi is sometimes used, particularly with respect to colleges or universities; however, it is sometimes frowned upon. By contrast, the common plural form campuses is universally accepted.

Derived terms

• campus legend
• off-campus / on-campus

Related terms

• camp
• campi (nonstandard plural)
• champerty

Translations

Verb

campus ‎(third-person singular simple present campuses, present participle campusing, simple past and past participle campused)

1. To confine to campus as a punishment.

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin campus. Compare the inherited doublet campu.

Noun

campus m ‎(plural campus)

1. campus (grounds or property of a school, etc)

Catalan

Noun

campus m ‎(plural campus)

1. campus

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: cam‧pus

Etymology

From English campus.

Noun

campus m ‎(plural campussen, diminutive campusje n)

1. campus

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin campus. Compare the inherited doublet champ.

Noun

campus m ‎(plural campus)

1. campus (of university)

Latin

A model of the Campus Martius under the Empire.

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- ‎(“to bend, curve”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkam.pus/, [ˈkam.pʊs]

Noun

campus m ‎(genitive campī); second declension

1. Open flat level ground: a plain, a natural field.

   Campus Martius

   The Field of Mars

2. (literary) Any flat or level surface.
   • Plautus, Trin., 4, 1, 15:

     ...campi natantes...

3. The comitia centuriata, which met on the Campus Martius.
4. A field of action: scope.
5. A field of debate: a topic.
6. An opportunity.
7. The produce of a field.

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• campus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• campus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• CAMPUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “campus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Lewis, Charleton & al. "campus" in A Latin Dictionary.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• câmpus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin campus. Compare the inherited doublet campo.

Noun

campus m (plural campi or campus (nonstandard))

1. campus

   Além das unidades localizadas nos campi Pampulha e Saúde, a UFMG possui ainda outras no centro de Belo Horizonte e bairros periféricos.
   Besides units located in the Pampulha and Health campuses, UFMG has others in downtown Belo Horizonte and surrounding neighborhoods.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin campus. Compare the inherited doublet campo.

Noun

campus m ‎(plural campus)

1. campus