campusとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkæmpəs/, /ˈkæmpʊs/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkæmpəs/

名詞

campus (複数形 campuses)

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

   The campus is sixty hectares in size.

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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動詞

campus (三人称単数 現在形 campuses, 現在分詞 campusing, 過去形および過去分詞形 campused)

1. To confine to campus as a punishment.

Latin

A model of the Campus Martius under the Empire.

語源

From Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (“to bend, curve”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkam.pus/, [ˈkam.pʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkam.pus/

名詞

campus m (genitive campī); second declension

1. Open flat level ground: a plain, a natural field.

   Campus Mārtius ― The Field of Mars

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

     ...campī natantēs...

3. The comitia centuriāta, which met on the Campus Mārtius.
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

• 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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• campus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Lewis, Charleton & al. "campus" in A Latin Dictionary.