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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈkæmpəs/, /ˈkæmpʊs/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈkæmpəs/, /ˈkænpəs/

名詞

campus (plural campuses or campusses or (nonstandard) campi)

1. The grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.

   The campus is sixty hectares in size.

   • 2013 August 24, Schumpeter, “Mr Geek goes to Washington”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8850:

     From their corporate campuses on the west coast, America’s technology entrepreneurs used to ignore faraway Washington, DC—or mention the place only to chastise it for holding back innovation with excessive regulation. They have, at times, invested in the low politics of self-interested lobbying […]. Yet unlike Wall Street […] tech tycoons have remained largely aloof from the broader affairs of the nation’s capital.

   • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 5:

     In addition to this signage there are promotional videos broadcast in English on television screens around the campus.

2. An institution of higher education and its ambiance.

   During the late 1960s, many an American campus was in a state of turmoil.

使用する際の注意点

• The Latinate plural form campi is sometimes used, particularly with respect to colleges or universities; however, it is sometimes frowned upon. By contrast, the common plural form campuses is universally accepted.

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campus (third-person singular simple present campuses or campusses, present participle campusing or campussing, simple past and past participle campused or campussed)

1. To confine (a student) to campus as a punishment.
   • 1932, The Syllabus, volume 48, page 444:

     They hold sessions regularly and “campus” women for staying out late—and they do their best campussing at those times when they are sleepiest and meanest from being out until three and four themselves the night before.

   • 1955, The Twentieth Century, volume 157, page 278:

     A secondary punishment was ‘campussing’, or confinement to a campus; and for the most trivial offences the treatment was a withering harangue from Mrs Wilmington, sometimes lasting for over an hour.

   • 1996 January 30, Maggie Smith, Evergreen School, quotee, “Attendance Issues”, in The 1996 Collection: Prepared for Sudbury Schools and Planning Groups, Framingham, Massachusetts: Sudbury Valley School Press, published August 1996, →ISBN, page 131:

     SM has been very patient but just last Friday one of them was campussed for two weeks with an automatic two day suspension if he didn't heed the campussing because of repeated contempt for fairly easy to fulfill sentences.

2. (climbing) To use a campus board, or to climb without feet as one would on a campus board.
   • 2010, Stewart M. Green, Ian Spencer-Green, Knack Rock Climbing: A Beginner’s Guide, page 30:

     It is climbed or "campused" with only your arms and hands.

   • 2016, Eric Horst, The Rock Climber's Exercise Guide, page 159:

     Boulder campusing is a popular indoor training exercise among advanced climbers—it's also a heck of a lot of fun if you're strong enough to do it right!

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkam.pʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkam.pus]

名詞

campus m (genitive campī); second declension

1. Open flat level ground: a plain, a natural field
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.691–692:

     ‘hoc’ ait ‘in campō’ (campumque ostendit) ‘habēbat
     rūs breve cum dūrō parca colōna virō.’

     “In this plain,” he says (and he shows me the plain), “a thrifty countrywoman was maintaining a little farm along with her sturdy husband.”

   Campus Mārtius ― The Field of Mars

2. (literary) Any flat or level surface
   • Plautus, Trin., 4, 1, 15:

     ...campī natantēs...

3. a specific plain or field north of Rome’s walls called the Campus Mārtius, where the comitia centuriata were held
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.11:

     Cum proximīs comitiīs cōnsulāribus mē cōnsulem in campō et competītōrēs tuōs interficere voluistī, compressī cōnātūs tuōs nefāriōs amīcōrum praesidiō et cōpiīs, nūllō tumultū pūblicē concitātō; […] .

     When, at the last consular elections, you wished to kill me, the consul, and your competitors in the Campus Martius, I suppressed your wicked attempts by means of the protection and forces of my friends without any disturbance being excited publicly.

4. A field of action: scope
5. A field of debate: a topic
6. An opportunity
7. The produce of a field
8. (New Latin) The campus of a university, college, or business

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

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参照

Further reading

• “campus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “campus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "campus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “campus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Lewis, Charleton & al. "campus" in A Latin Dictionary.