campesino

/kampeˈsino/ · B1 · adj

rural

🌾🚜 campesino = campo (field) + -esino: someone of the fields

Spanish campo comes from Latin campus, field. That root also gives English campus, camp and champion, which first meant someone fighting on the field. A campesino is a person of the fields: a farmer or peasant. As an adjective it means rural.

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