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)

fighter

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	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)

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