Noun: campania
| Singular | campania |
| Plural | campanias |
Sample Sentences
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The contrary of all this happens in Countries thin inhabited, and eſpecially in vaſt Campania’s, ſuch as are extended through Aſia and Africk, where there are few Cities, beſides what grow by the Reſidence of the Kings or their Governours. [1679, William Temple, “An Essay upon the Original and Nature of Government. […]”, in Miscellanea. […], London: […] A. M. and R. R. for Edw[ard] Gellibrand, […], →OCLC, page 52:]
Nouns inflected like campania
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Italian campagna, respelled after its etymon Late Latin campānia (“open country, battlefield”) (compare the region Campania), from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of campaign, campagna, and champagne. See: Italian Nouns '
campagna', Latin Nouns '
campus'.