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campionat
championship /kampjoˈnat/
noun#4903 most common
Also: title tournament, contest series
Example sentences
Îmi place campionatul de fotbal.
I like the football championship.
El a câștigat campionatul anul trecut.
He won the championship last year.
Echipa noastră participă la campionatul național.
Our team is competing in the national championship.
Organizatorii campionatului au anunțat noile reguli.
The organizers of the championship announced the new rules.
Fanii au fost dezamăgiți de rezultatele campionatelor regionale din acest sezon.
Fans were disappointed by the results of this season's regional championships.
Deși criticat pentru corupție, campionatul a continuat să atragă mii de spectatori entuziaști.
Although criticized for corruption, the championship kept drawing thousands of enthusiastic spectators.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | campionat | campionate |
| Genitive | campionatului | campionatelor |
| Accusative | campionat | campionate |
| Vocative | campionatule | campionatelor |
Word family
Etymology
Romanian built "campionat" from "campion" (champion) plus the noun-forming suffix "-at", which marks an event or institution tied to a role. The pattern mirrors French "championnat" and Italian "campionato", both of which likely shaped the Romanian coinage alongside its own internal derivation. "Campion" itself entered Romanian through French and Italian, ultimately from Medieval Latin "campio, campionem", a term for a fighter who represented someone in a trial by combat.
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