campagne

See also: Campagne

English

Noun

campagne

1. plural of campagna

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑmˈpɑ.njə/

• audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: cam‧pag‧ne
• Rhymes: -ɑnjə
• Homophone: Campagne

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French campagne.

Noun

campagne f (plural campagnes)

1. (politics, society) campaign

   Synonym: offensief

Derived terms

• boostercampagne
• gezondheidscampagne
• lastercampagne
• vaccinatiecampagne
• verkiezingscampagne
• voorlichtingscampagne

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch campagne, campanie. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

campagne m or f (plural campagnes)

1. (military) campaign, offensive

   Synonyms: offensief, veldtocht

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑ̃.paɲ/

• audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɲ

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Occitan campanha or Old Northern French campaigne, corresponding to Old French champa(i)gne. Doublet of Champagne and champagne.

Noun

campagne f (plural campagnes)

1. country (the country, rural area, as opposed to the town or city), countryside

Derived terms

• battre la campagne
• maison de campagne
• pain de campagne
• rase campagne

Etymology 2

Probably borrowed from Italian campagna, itself from Late Latin campania, from Latin campus.

Noun

campagne f (plural campagnes)

1. campaign

Derived terms

• campagne électorale
• faire campagne

Descendants

• → Czech: kampaň
• → English: campaign
  • → Hebrew: קמפיין (kampéin)
• → German: Kampagne, Campagne
  • → Hungarian: kampány

Further reading

• “campagne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kamˈpaɲ.ɲe/
• Rhymes: -aɲɲe
• Hyphenation: cam‧pà‧gne

Noun

campagne f

1. plural of campagna

Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin campānia.

Noun

campagne oblique singular, f (oblique plural campagnes, nominative singular campagne, nominative plural campagnes)

1. the countryside