英语词汇campus的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	campus
词源	campus. Campus, for the grounds of a university, college, school, or hospital, is a borrowing from the Latin campus, plain or field. According to Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, it is an Americanism first used at Princeton University in 1774.
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