camp - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (2024)

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Contents English[edit] Pronunciation[edit] Etymology 1[edit] Etymology 2[edit] Etymology 3[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] Anagrams[edit] Catalan[edit] Etymology[edit] Pronunciation[edit] Noun[edit] References[edit] Chinese[edit] Etymology 1[edit] Etymology 2[edit] References[edit] French[edit] Etymology 1[edit] Etymology 2[edit] Further reading[edit] Middle English[edit] Etymology 1[edit] Etymology 2[edit] Norman[edit] Alternative forms[edit] Etymology[edit] Noun[edit] Old English[edit] Etymology[edit] Pronunciation[edit] Noun[edit] Noun[edit] Old French[edit] Noun[edit] Welsh[edit] Etymology[edit] Pronunciation[edit] Noun[edit] Mutation[edit] Concepts Covered: Additional Concepts: Note:

See also: Camp, CAMP, cAMP, câmp, cãmp, and cämp-

Contents

  • 1 English
    • 1.1 Pronunciation
    • 1.2 Etymology 1
      • 1.2.1 Noun
        • 1.2.1.1 Derived terms
        • 1.2.1.2 Related terms
        • 1.2.1.3 Descendants
        • 1.2.1.4 Translations
      • 1.2.2 Verb
        • 1.2.2.1 Derived terms
        • 1.2.2.2 Translations
    • 1.3 Etymology 2
      • 1.3.1 Noun
        • 1.3.1.1 Derived terms
        • 1.3.1.2 Translations
      • 1.3.2 Adjective
        • 1.3.2.1 Derived terms
        • 1.3.2.2 Translations
      • 1.3.3 Descendants
    • 1.4 Etymology 3
      • 1.4.1 Noun
    • 1.5 See also
    • 1.6 References
    • 1.7 Anagrams
  • 2 Catalan
    • 2.1 Etymology
    • 2.2 Pronunciation
    • 2.3 Noun
      • 2.3.1 Derived terms
      • 2.3.2 Related terms
    • 2.4 References
  • 3 Chinese
    • 3.1 Etymology 1
      • 3.1.1 Pronunciation
      • 3.1.2 Noun
      • 3.1.3 See also
    • 3.2 Etymology 2
      • 3.2.1 Pronunciation
      • 3.2.2 Adjective
    • 3.3 References
  • 4 French
    • 4.1 Etymology 1
      • 4.1.1 Pronunciation
      • 4.1.2 Noun
        • 4.1.2.1 Derived terms
        • 4.1.2.2 Related terms
    • 4.2 Etymology 2
      • 4.2.1 Pronunciation
      • 4.2.2 Adjective
      • 4.2.3 Noun
        • 4.2.3.1 Synonyms
    • 4.3 Further reading
  • 5 Middle English
    • 5.1 Etymology 1
      • 5.1.1 Verb
    • 5.2 Etymology 2
      • 5.2.1 Adjective
  • 6 Norman
    • 6.1 Alternative forms
    • 6.2 Etymology
    • 6.3 Noun
  • 7 Old English
    • 7.1 Etymology
    • 7.2 Pronunciation
    • 7.3 Noun
      • 7.3.1 Declension
      • 7.3.2 Derived terms
    • 7.4 Noun
      • 7.4.1 Descendants
  • 8 Old French
    • 8.1 Noun
  • 9 Welsh
    • 9.1 Etymology
    • 9.2 Pronunciation
    • 9.3 Noun
      • 9.3.1 Derived terms
    • 9.4 Mutation

English[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English kampe (“battlefield, open space”), from Old English camp (“battle, contest, battlefield, open space”), from Proto-West Germanic *kamp (“open field where military exercises are held, level plain”), from Latin campus (“open field, level plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (“to bend; crooked”). Reinforced circa 1520 by Middle French can, camp (“place where an army lodges temporarily”), from Old Northern French camp, from the same Latin (whence also French champ from Old French). Cognate with Old High German champf (“battle, struggle”) (German Kampf), Old Norse kapp (“battle”), Old High German hamf (“paralysed, maimed, mutilated”). Doublet of campus and champ.

The verb is from Middle English campen, from Old English campian, compian (“to fight, war against”), from Proto-West Germanic *kampōn (“to fight, do battle”), from *kamp (“field, battlefield, battle”), see above. Cognate with Dutch kampen, German kämpfen (“to struggle”), Danish kæmpe, Swedish kämpa.

Noun[edit]

camp (countable and uncountable, plural camps)

  1. An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.
  2. An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
  3. A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
  4. A concentration camp; gulag.

    • 2013 June 18, Esther Felden, “Hell on earth”, in Deutsche Welle‎[1], archived from the original on 22 June 2015‎[2]:

      Mr. Ahn Myong-Chol was a prison guard at Camp 22 in ho*ryong and a driver at the camps. He was there between 1990 and 1994. He is the one who reported that prisoners had been used for human experimentation inside the camps.

  5. A single hut or shelter.

    a hunter's camp

  6. The company or body of persons encamped.
  7. A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
  8. (obsolete) An army.
  9. (uncommon) Campus
  10. (informal) A summer camp.
  11. (prison slang) A prison.

    • 2009, Nick Chandler, Jeanette Billings, Determined to Change: The Autobiography of Nick Chandler, page 184:

      Lantana is a sweet camp. It's an old hospital that has been converted to a drug treatment center for prisoners.

  12. (agriculture) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost
    Synonyms: burrow, pie
  13. (obsolete) Conflict; battle.
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Translations[edit]

outdoor place

organized event

base

summer camp — see summer camp

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Verb[edit]

camp (third-person singular simple present camps, present participle camping, simple past and past participle camped)

  1. To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.

    We're planning to camp in the field until Sunday.

  2. To set up a camp.
  3. (transitive) To afford rest or lodging for.
  4. (intransitive, sports, video games) To stay in an advantageous location.
    Some players like to camp next to a power-up's spawning point.

    • 1962, Coach & Athlete, page 18:

      Yet, even without the three second rule, where your big man could camp underneath and take those delightful “garbage” shots, there was little or no pivot offense, no cutting off the bucket.

  5. (transitive, video games) To stay beside (something) to gain an advantage.

    The easiest way to win on this map is to camp the double damage.

    Go and camp the flag for the win.

  6. (transitive, video games) Short for corpse camp.
  7. (intransitive, obsolete) To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive with others in doing anything; compete.
    • 1562, Leigh, The Accedens of Armory ː
      Aristotle affirmeth that Rauens will gather together on sides, and campe and fight for victorie.
  8. (intransitive, obsolete) To wrangle; argue.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]

to live in a tent

to set up a camp

to stay in an advantageous location in a video game

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Etymology 2[edit]

Unknown. Suggested origins include the 17th century French word camper (“to put oneself in a pose”),[1] an assumed dialectal English word *camp or *kemp (“rough, uncouth”) and a derivation from camp (n.)[2] Believed to be from Polari, otherwise obscure.[3]

Noun[edit]

camp (uncountable)

  1. An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.

    • 1985 September 2, Joe Klein, quoting Douglas S. Cramer, “The Real Star of ‘Dynasty’”, in New York, page 34:

      We walk a fine line, just this side of camp. Careful calculations are made. We sense that while it might be wonderful for Krystle and Alexis to have a catfight in a koi pond, it would be inappropriate for Joan to smack Linda with a koi.

    • 1996 March 31, Trip Gabriel, “Showgirls' Crawls Back As High Camp at Midnight”, in The New York Times‎[3], →ISSN:

      Why would any Hollywood studio encourage a film's transformation into camp, in effect joining in the mockery of its own product? MGM declined to comment.

Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]

style

Adjective[edit]

camp (comparative camper, superlative campest)

  1. Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
  2. (of a man) Ostentatiously effeminate.[4]

    • 2007, David Rothwell, Dictionary of hom*onyms, Wordsworth Editions, →ISBN, page 88:

      More recently the word has become colloquial English for either implying that someone is a hom*osexual (‘he's very camp’), or for describing rather outre behaviour […]

    • 2014, Sarah Lotz, The Three, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

      And to be honest, in the illustration Mr Tumnus does look as camp as f*ck with his little scarf tied jauntily around his neck. I suppose it isn't outside the realms of possibility that he'd just been off cottaging with some centaurs in the forest. God.

  3. Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying.

    • 2002, Georges-Claude Guilbert, Madonna as Postmodern Myth, McFarland, →ISBN, page 123:

      In Saturday Night Live, Madonna also unsurprisingly played Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe, and a Joan Collins clone, all in a very camp way. As John Dean writes: “U.S. rock has a ruling camp queen with Madonna.”

Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]

ostentatiously effeminate

tasteless

Descendants[edit]

  • → Finnish: camp
  • → French: camp
  • → Spanish: camp

Etymology 3[edit]

From Spanish campo (“countryside”).

Noun[edit]

camp (countable and uncountable, plural camps)

  1. (slang, Falkland Islands) The areas of the Falkland Islands situated outside the capital and largest settlement, Stanley.
  2. An electoral constituency of the legislative assembly of the Falkland Islands that composes of all territory more than 3.5 miles from the spire of the Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “camp”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  2. ^ Michael Quinion, "Camp" in: World Wide Words, 2003
  3. ^ listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
  4. ^ Reuben, David R. (1969), chapter 8, in Everything you always wanted to know about sex but were too afraid to ask, New York: David McKay Company, Inc., published 1970, →LCCN, hom*osexuals have their own language?, page146: “CAMP: be obviously and obnoxiously hom*osexual”

Anagrams[edit]

Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Latin campus (compare Occitan camp, French champ, Spanish campo), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp-.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

campm (plural camps)

  1. field (open area of land)
    Synonym: terreny
  2. camp (temporary outdoor accommodation)
    Synonym: campament
  3. field of study, discipline
    Synonym: disciplina
  4. (physics) field

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • “camp” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Chinese[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From English camp.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

camp

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) camp (organised event); summer camp

See also[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From English camp.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

camp

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) camp (effeminate)

References[edit]

  • Bauer, Robert S. (2021) ABC Cantonese-English Comprehensive Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page538

French[edit]

camp - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (9)

Etymology 1[edit]

Probably from a Norman or Picard word equivalent to French champ (itself inherited from Old French champ and Latin), from Old Northern French camp, from Latin campus, or alternatively from Occitan camp, Old Occitan camp, possibly Italian campo. Doublet of campus and champ.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

campm (plural camps)

  1. camp (An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.)
    Il a dressé son camp de l'autre côté de la rivière. ― He has erected his camp on the other side of the river.
  2. camp (Semi-temporary accommodation)
    Un camp de concentration. ― A concentration camp.
  3. camp (A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary)
    Les camps ennemis. ― The enemy camps.
  4. camp (A group of people with the same ideals or political leanings, strongly supported.)
    Ce pays est partagé en deux camps. ― This country is divided into two camps.
  5. camp, summer camp
    Un camp de vacances. ― A summer camp. (idiomatic; French usage does not specify a season)
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

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Borrowed from English camp.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

camp (invariable)

  1. camp (Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying, affected, exaggerated)

    Une folle camp ne peut jamais en faire trop.

    (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Noun[edit]

campm (uncountable)

  1. campness; An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style
    La tactique des Sœurs dans la lutte contre le sida repose sur une stratégie politique: une utilisation du camp, une réappropriation revendiquée de l’efféminement, de la visibilité hom*osexuelle et de la follitude qui visent à désarmer les injonctions morales pesant sur la sexualité – sociales, religieuses, liées au sexe, au genre, aux pratiques sexuelles…
Synonyms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old English campian.

Verb[edit]

camp

  1. Alternative form of campen

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Norse kampr.

Adjective[edit]

camp

  1. Alternative form of kempe (“shaggy”)

Norman[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Northern French camp (compare Old French champ), from Latin campus, from Proto-Indo-European *kamp- (“to bend; crooked”). Compare French champ.

Noun[edit]

campm (plural camps)

  1. (Guernsey) field

Old English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-West Germanic *kamp, from Latin campus.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

campm

  1. combat

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Noun[edit]

campn

  1. an enclosed piece of land

Descendants[edit]

  • Middle English: kampe, komp, comp
    • English: camp (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: camp

Old French[edit]

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Noun[edit]

camp oblique singular,m (oblique plural cans, nominative singular cans, nominative plural camp)

  1. Alternative form of champ (“field”)

Welsh[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Welsh camp, from Proto-Brythonic *kamp, from Latin campus, from the senses of "field of action, scope, opportunity, or produce of a field".

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

campf (plural campau)

  1. feat, accomplishment
    Synonym: gorchest
  2. sport, contest

Derived terms[edit]

Mutation[edit]

Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
campgampnghampchamp
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

As an expert in linguistics and language, I'm well-versed in etymology, phonetics, and language evolution. Let me break down the information provided in the article:

Concepts Covered:

1. Camp (Noun) - Etymology 1:

  • Definition: An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.
  • Derived Terms: Auto camp, band camp, base camp, boot camp, break camp, camp-ball, camp bed, camper, campfire, camp follower, campground, camp mother, camp oven, campsite, concentration camp, death camp, dinner camp, encampment, extermination camp, fat camp, fish camp, flying camp, freedom camp, holiday camp, internment camp, labor camp, logging camp, man camp, North Camp, POW camp, prison camp, refugee camp, silence camp, slave camp, spawn camping, squatter camp, strike camp, summer camp, terrorist camp, timber camp, town camp, work camp, work-camp, etc.
  • Related Terms: Campus, champerty
  • Descendants: German, Irish, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Ottoman Turkish, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Swahili, Taos, and others.

2. Camp (Verb) - Etymology 1:

  • Definition: To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
  • Derived Terms: Cample, camp out.

3. Camp (Noun) - Etymology 2:

  • Definition: An affected, exaggerated, or intentionally tasteless style.
  • Derived Terms: Camp as a row of tents, campness, high camp, low camp.

4. Camp (Adjective) - Etymology 2:

  • Definition: Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures. (of a man) Ostentatiously effeminate.
  • Derived Terms: Camp it up, campy.

5. Camp (Noun) - Etymology 3 (Chinese):

  • Definition: In Hong Kong Cantonese, it refers to an organized event or summer camp.

6. Camp (Noun) - Catalan:

  • Definition: Field (open area of land), temporary outdoor accommodation, field of study, discipline.
  • Derived Terms: Acampar, camp d'extermini, camp de batalla, camp de concentració, etc.

7. Camp (Noun) - Old English:

  • Definition: Combat, battle.

8. Camp (Noun) - Norman:

  • Definition: Field.

9. Camp (Noun) - Middle English:

  • Definition: Combat, battle.

10. Camp (Noun) - Old French:

  • Definition: Field.

11. Camp (Adjective) - Middle English:

  • Definition: Shaggy.

Additional Concepts:

  • Camp (Noun - Chinese, Etymology 1):

    • Refers to an organized event or summer camp in Hong Kong Cantonese.

  • Camp (Noun - Chinese, Etymology 2):

    • Refers to effeminate behavior in Hong Kong Cantonese.

  • Camp (Noun - French, Etymology 1):

    • Refers to an outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation, concentration camp, and more.

  • Camp (Noun - French, Etymology 2):

    • Refers to campness or an affected, exaggerated style.

  • Camp (Noun - Catalan):

    • Refers to an open area of land, temporary outdoor accommodation, and field of study.

  • Camp (Noun - Old English):

    • Refers to combat or battle.

  • Camp (Noun - Norman):

    • Refers to a field.

  • Camp (Adjective - Middle English):

    • Refers to being shaggy.

Note:

  • Descendants: Indicates how the word evolved into other languages or forms.

This comprehensive breakdown covers the various meanings, derivations, and cultural associations of the term "camp" across different languages and historical periods.

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