campania

From Italian campagna, respelled after its etymon Late Latin campānia (“open country, battlefield”) (compare the region Campania), from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of campaign, campagna, and champagne.

campania (plural campanias)

1. (obsolete) Open country.
   • 1672, William Temple, “An Essay upon the Original and Nature of Government. ”, in Miscellanea. The First Part. , 3rd edition, London: Jacob Tonson, , and Awnsham and John Churchill, , published 1691, →OCLC, page 52:

     The contrary of all this happens in Countries thin inhabited, and eſpecially in vaſt Campania’s, ſuch as are extended through Aſia and Africk, where there are few Cities, beſides what grow by the Reſidence of the Kings or their Governours.

• “campania”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• campānea

Substantivisation of Late Latin campāneus (“of fields, in a plain”), from campus (“level field”) +‎ -āneus. Attested from the sixth century CE.

campānia f (genitive campāniae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. plain
2. countryside surrounding a city
3. cultivable land

First-declension noun.

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: campagna (see there for further descendants)
  • Neapolitan: campagna
  • Sicilian: campagna
• North Italian:
  • Romansch: champagna
  • Venetian: campagna
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: campanya
  • Occitan: campanha
  • Old French: champagne, campaigne (northern)
    • French: champagne, campagne, Champagne (see there for further descendants)
    • Norman: campagne
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Portuguese: campanha
  • Spanish: campaña

• campania 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)
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “campania”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• campania in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “campanius”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 122