campus

Forms

campus n (plural campusuri)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from English campus, the American English word, as DEX, MDA2 and Dimitrescu give it;^[2][3][4] DELR, the MDN and NODEX add borrowed from French campus, which French itself took from English,^[5][6][7] and DN names only the French word.^[8] The English word is from Latin campus (“flat land, field”).^[5][4][9]

The same Latin word is also the source of the inherited câmp, so the two Romanian words are doublets.^[1][10]

Earliest recorded meaning

Dimitrescu's dictionary of recent words quotes it from 1974 in România literară, of writers whose experience hardly goes beyond campus life, then labelled an Americanism for a university settlement in the United States.^[4] DELR dates it 1978,^[5] and MDA2 takes it from the second edition of DEX (1998).^[3]

Semantic evolution

At first the word described American universities, and Dimitrescu still marks it as an Americanism.^[4] It now names any university complex with its teaching, research and housing buildings, as in a 2009 headline about a campus under the mud.^[2][4]

Timeline

• 1974 – the first record, in România literară.^[4]
• 1978 – the date DELR gives.^[5]
• 1979 – the plural campusuri in the review Contemporanul.^[4]
• 1998 – in the second edition of DEX.^[3]

Meanings

Noun

1. A campus: a university complex with buildings and facilities for teaching, research, housing and leisure.^[2][3][8]

Related words

• câmp
• Latin campus

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 137
3. ^ a b c d Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 284
4. ^ a b c d e f g Dimitrescu, Florica (1997), Dicționar de cuvinte recente, 2nd ed., București: Logos (with the 3rd ed., 2013, in CLRE)
5. ^ a b c d Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2011–), Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române (DELR), vol. I: A–B (2011), vol. II: C (2015–2018), București: Editura Academiei Române; continued online at delr.lingv.ro, p. s.v. campus
6. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual
7. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional
8. ^ a b Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România
9. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
10. ^ Gabinschi, Marcu (2001), Dicționar de dublete etimologice ale limbii române, 2nd ed., Chișinău: Litera