campio

See also: campió

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *kampijō, from *kampijan (“to do battle”), from Proto-West Germanic *kamp (“field, field of battle; battle”), from Latin campus (“place or field of action”); see English champion and kemp for further discussion.

Noun

campiō m (genitive campiōnis); third declension (Early Medieval Latin)

1. fighter

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	campiō	campiōnēs
genitive	campiōnis	campiōnum
dative	campiōnī	campiōnibus
accusative	campiōnem	campiōnēs
ablative	campiōne	campiōnibus
vocative	campiō	campiōnēs

Descendants

• → Albanian: kampion
• → English: Campion
• → Esperanto: ĉampiono
• → Ido: championo
• Italian: campione
  • → Galician: campión
  • → Portuguese: campeão
  • → Romanian: campion
  • → Spanish: campeón
    • → Cebuano: kampyon
    • → Tagalog: kampyon
• Old Occitan:
  • Occitan: campion
• Old French: champion, campion
  • Catalan: campió
  • → Middle English: champioun, champiun, chaumpiun, champyon, champion, schaumpion, schampyon, chaumpiun, kampyoun, chaunpyoun, kampyoun, caumpiun
    • English: champion (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: champion
  • French: champion (see there for further descendants)
  • → Middle Dutch: campioen
    • Dutch: kampioen
      • → Indonesian: kampiun

References

• campio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)