Champagne is the French sparkling wine that pops open at celebrations. A bottle of champagne, champagne flute, open the champagne.
The name is protected: only sparkling wine from the Champagne region made by the traditional method may be called it, and everything else is sparkling wine, cava, prosecco or crémant. The bubbles come from a second fermentation in the bottle. Note champagne socialist, a British insult; and that the region's name comes from the Latin for open country.
1nounchampagneSparkling wine from the Champagne region of France.
“They opened a bottle of champagne to celebrate the new baby.”
champagne is a wine.
French champagne comes from the region, whose name is from Latin campania, open country, from campus, a field. Campaign and camp come from the same field.
Proto-Indo-European
*kh₂em-
Latin
campānia
French
champagne — sparkling wine from the Champagne region
English, today
champagne
Built from
French champagne (“sparkling wine from the Champagne region”), from Champagne (“region and former province of France”), from Latin campānia (in full Campānia Rēmēnsis), from campāneus (“of or pertaining to the fields”), from Latin campus (“level ground; field, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European kh₂em- (“to bend, curve”). The English word is a a doublet of campagna dated, campaign, and campania.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA