What is the origin of the word "campus"?

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Why: 2Pz team Joel & Kylie failed at finding Icees anywhere between Manhattan and Raiford's, including the Graceland campus.

Answer: The word itself means "field," but the note also says:

• probably prop. "an expanse surrounded" (by woods, higher ground, etc.)
• from PIE kampos "a corner, cove"
• from base kamp- "to bend"
• Lith[unanian?] kampus "corner"
  
• Pol[ish?] kepa "island in a river"
• First used in college sense at Princeton.

So if hippo- means "horse," and campus means "field," apparently hippocampus means "horse field." (But it doesn't - really it is hippo- plus kampos, which means "sea monster," aka "seahorse"... which is just as strange, really.)

Source: EtymOnline

The More You Know: Apparently they found Icees on the way back to Nashville! I hope they stopped at Casey Jones Village!