campion

Likely from Middle English campion, a variant of champioun; see champion. In classical times, the rose campion was fitted in garlands used to crown victors.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæmpiən/

campion (plural campions)

1. Some flowering plants of the genus Lychnis.
2. Any flowering plant of the genus Silene.
   • 1918, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “[Poem 63]”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 83:

     Then over his turnèd temples—here— / Was a rose, or, failing that, / Rough-Robin or five-lipped campion clear / For a beauty-bow to his hat, […]

• alpine campion (Viscaria alpina, syn. Lychnis alpina)
• bladder campion (Silene vulgaris)
• evening campion (Silene latifolia subsp. alba, syn. Lychnis alba)
• meadow campion (Lychnis flos-cuculi)
• morning campion (Silene dioica)
• moss campion (Silene acaulis)
• red campion (Silene dioica; Lychnis sect. Agrostemma)
• rose campion (Silene coronaria, syn. Lychnis coronaria)
• sea campion (Silene vulgaris subsp. vulgaris, Silene uniflora subsp. uniflora, syn. (for both, different authors) Silene maritima)
• snowy campion (Silene nivea)
• starry campion (Silene stellata)
• white campion (Silene latifolia subsp. alba, syn. Lychnis alba)

• “campion”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

• panomic

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Late Latin campiō.

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campion m (plural campions, feminine campiona, feminine plural campionas)

1. champion

• campionat

Borrowed from Italian campione, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin campiō, campiōnem, from Frankish *kampijō (or a Lombardic equivalent) from Proto-Germanic *kampijô, based on Latin campus (“level ground”); cf. also French champion.

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campion m (plural campioni, feminine equivalent campioană)

1. champion

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