campaign

campaign
\ \ [17] Ultimately, campaign and champagne are the same word. Both go back to late Latin campānia, a derivative of Latin campusopen field’ (source of English camp).
\ \ This passed into Old French as champagne and into Italian as campagnaopen country’, and both words have subsequently come to be used as the designation of regions in France and Italy (whence English champagne [17], wine made in the Champagne area of eastern France). The French word was also borrowed into English much earlier, as the now archaic champaignopen country’ [14]. Meanwhile, in Italian a particular military application of campagna had arisen: armies disliked fighting in winter because of the bad weather, so they stayed in camp, not emerging to do battle in the open countryside (the campagna) until summer.
\ \ Hence campagna came to mean ‘military operations’; it was borrowed in to French as campagne, and thence into English.
\ \ Cf.CAMP, CHAMPAGNE

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