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campania
Medieval Latin · medieval
"open country"
open country, flat farmland, from campus (a field)
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campagne
French · 1600s
"a military operation in open country"
narrowed in French to describe an army's operations conducted in open country
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campaign
English · 1640s
"an organized effort to achieve a particular goal"
broadened from military operations to any organized effort toward a goal
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