champion

champion
\ \ [13] Etymologically, a champion is someone who fought in the campus or arena.
\ \ Latin campus (source of English camp) meant, among other things, ‘field of battle’ – both a fullscale military battlefield and an area for staged battles between gladiators. Those who fought in such battles – the gladiators – were called in medieval Latin campiones. The word passed into English via Old French champion. The word’s original meaning survives historically in such phrases as ‘king’s champion’, someone who will fight on behalf of the king, and by extension in ‘supporter’, as in ‘a champion of prisoners’ rights’. The modern sense ‘winner’ did not develop until the early 19th century. The abbreviated form champ is 19th-century American.
\ \ An alternative and now obsolete form of the word is campion, from Old Northern French, and it has been speculated that this is the origin of the plant-name campion [16], on the basis that it was used to make garlands for fighters.
\ \ Cf.⇒ CAMP, CAMPION, CHAMPAGNE, CHAMPION

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  • Champion Ch-2 — Champion Bild nicht vorhanden Ch 2 Hersteller: Hermann Holbein Fahrzeugbau Produktionszeitraum: 1949–1950 Klasse: Kleinstwagen …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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  • champion — CHAMPION. s. m. Celui qui combattoit en champ clos pour sa querelle, ou pour la querelle d autrui. Brave, vaillant champion. Ceux qui ne pouvoient pas combattre de leurs personnes, comme les vieillards, les estropiés, les Ecclésiastiques, les… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798

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