campaña

/kamˈpaɲa/ · B1 · noun · f

political campaign

🔔 From Latin campus = field: troops take the field, so a campaign

Late Latin campania meant open country, from campus (field). Armies went out to the fields each season to fight, so the same word came to mean a military, then political, campaign. English campaign and camp are cousins.

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