campo

See also: campó and campò

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Etymology 1

From camp(us) +‎ -o.

Noun

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.

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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, [...]

Anagrams

• mo-cap, mocap

Catalan

Verb

campo

1. first-person singular present indicative of campar

Galician

O campo

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Derived terms

• campa
• Campa
• Campo
• campo da feira
• Campo da feira
• Campo Longo
• Campo Redondo
• Campolongo
• Camporrapado
• Camporredondo
• Campos
• camposanto
• Campoverde

 

Related terms

• campaña
• campar
• campazo
• campechán
• campeiro
• campelo
• Campelo
• Campelos
• campesiño
• campestre
• campiña
• campiñela
• campío
• camposa
• Camposa
• camposo
• escampada
• escampado
• escampar
• escampo

 

References

• 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: ILG
• 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

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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.)

Related terms

Related terms

• campagna
• campale
• campata
• campesino
• campestre
• campetto
• campiello
• campire
• campo d'aviazione (“airfield”)
• campo da calcio (“football/soccer pitch”)
• campo di concentramento (“concentration camp”)
• campo di cricket (“cricket pitch”)
• campo da golf (“golf course”)
• campo di battaglia (“battlefield”)
• campo di grano (“cornfield”)
• campo da tennis (“tennis court”)
• campo di visibilità (“field of visibility”)
• campo giochi (“play area”)
• campo lungo (“longshot (film)”)
• camporella
• campo petrolifero (“oilfield”)
• camposanto

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

campo

1. first-person singular present indicative of campare

Latin

Noun

campō

1. dative/ablative singular of campus

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• canpo (alternative spelling)

Etymology

From Latin campus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkampo/

Noun

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.

Descendants

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

Portuguese

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ̃.pu/

• Hyphenation: cam‧po

Noun

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

Derived terms

• campo magnético

Related terms

• acampamento
• acampar
• campanha
• campear
• campeiro
• campina
• camposo

 

Descendants

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

Etymology 2

Verb

campo

1. first-person singular present indicative of campar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkampo/ [ˈkãm.po]

• Audio (Peru):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ampo
• Syllabification: cam‧po

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

• a campo abierto
• a campo raso
• a campo través
• a campo travieso
• batir el campo
• campal
• campar
• campero
• campestre
• campo a campo
• campo a través
• campo atrás
• campo de Agramante
• campo de batalla
• campo de concentración
• campo de escombros
• campo de estudio
• campo de exterminio
• campo de fuerza
• campo de fuerzas
• campo de golf
• campo de hielo
• campo de medida
• campo de minas
• campo de nabos
• campo de refugiados
• campo de tiro
• campo de trabajo
• campo de visión
• campo del honor
• campo eléctrico
• campo electromagnético
• campo gravitacional
• campo gravitatorio
• campo magnético
• campo raso
• campo santo
• campo semántico
• campo traviesa
• campo visual
• casa de campo
• correr el campo
• de campo
• dejar al campo
• frutilla del campo
• gemelos de campo
• guía de campo
• hacer campo
• jugador de campo
• levantar el campo
• maestre de campo
• maravilla del campo
• marcar el campo
• mariscal de campo
• medio campo
• partida de campo
• partir el campo
• poner puertas al campo
• quedar en el campo
• reconocer el campo
• uvita del campo

 

Related terms

• campana
• campaña
• campesino

 

Descendants

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

campo

1. first-person singular present indicative of campar

Further reading

• “campo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28