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Translation

champagne

Word origin

From French Champagne, the region, from Late Latin campania, open country, from campus, a field. The same Roman field gives English camp, campaign and champion.

Origin
French
Root
campania
English cognates
champagne, campaign, camp, champion

Examples

.

We drank champagne at the new year.

Francio.

The champagne comes from France.

.

A bottle of champagne stood on the table.

The drink is named after a place and the place is named after a field. Champagne is Late Latin campania, open flat country, from campus. So a glass of , a military kampanjo and a on a podium are all standing in the same Roman field, which is more than most etymologies give you.

Watch the capital letter, because Esperanto is strict here in a way English only half is. The region is Ĉampanjo and keeps its capital, because it is a name. The wine is and loses it, because it is an ordinary noun and ordinary nouns are not names. English does the same trick with Burgundy the place and burgundy the colour, but inconsistently; Esperanto applies the rule every time. The rest of the capitalisation rules are set out in orthography and punctuation.

One note on quantity. Because it is a substance you measure rather than count, you will usually meet it after : , . would be a bottle belonging to the champagne, which is not what anybody means.

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This word is part of lesson 47.