Kampuseid

Kampuseid is the partitive plural form of the Estonian noun kampus, meaning “campuses” in English. In Estonian, kampus refers to the grounds and facilities of a university or other higher education institution, or more broadly to a campus area. The form kampuseid is used when referring to an indefinite quantity of campuses in contexts that require the partitive case, such as after numerals that take the partitive or with verbs that govern the partitive.

Morphology and inflection: kampus has several inflected forms, including kampused in the nominative plural, kampuste in the genitive plural, and kampuseid in the partitive plural. This aligns with standard Estonian noun inflection patterns for -us nouns.

Usage and semantics: kampuseid appears mainly in formal or descriptive contexts, including academic writing, urban planning, and policy discussions about networks or facilities that involve multiple campuses. It does not denote a specific entity, but rather serves as the grammatical form for referring to multiple campuses in a partitive sense.

Etymology: kampus is a loanword in Estonian, deriving from the Latin campus through European languages, and has acquired Estonian plural forms that follow regular inflection patterns, including kampuseid for the partitive plural.

See also: kampus.