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Borrowed from Italiancampanile(“bell tower, belfry”), from campana(“bell”) + -ile(suffix forming nouns indicating locations that host animals or objects). Campana is derived from Late Latin and Medieval Latincampāna(“large bell used in late classical or medieval church towers or steeples; tower for such a bell, belfry, campanile”), and then either:
traditionally regarded to be from LatinCampāna(“region of Campania, Italy”) (because bells were supposedly introduced in Christian services in Nola, a diocese of Campania, by Saint Paulinus (c. 354 – 431), though the story has been discredited), from Campānus(“relating to the region of Campania, Italy, or its inhabitants, Campanian”), from campus(“field, plain”) (from Proto-Indo-European*kh₂em-(“to bend, curve”)) + -ānus(suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives, which are sometimes used as nouns); or
from Ancient Greekκαπάνη(kapánē, “felt helmet”) (apparently because of the similarity in shape).
There was no doubt as to the direction, with the campanile of the duomo as a beacon. For a quarter of a mile the road is straight and narrow; then it broadens into an open space and Castel Franco appears.
Translations
bell tower, especially in Italy — see also bell tower
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2021; “campanile, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
