camp army 4 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
type Polysemy
language Byzantine Greek
lexeme φοσσᾶτον
meaning 1 camp
direction
meaning 2 army
reference
comment Buck 1377.
NEW Realization 2
type Polysemy
language English
lexeme camp
meaning 1 outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures
direction
meaning 2 (obsolete) army

My Campe is like to Iulius Cæſars Hoſte,
That neuer fought but had the victorie

(c. 1587–1588, Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great, Act III, scene iii)

reference OED English Wiktionary
comment
ACCEPTED Realization 3
type Cognates
language 1 German
language 2 Danish
lexeme 1 Lager
lexeme 2 leger
meaning 1 camp
direction
meaning 2 army
reference
comment Buck 1378
ACCEPTED Realization 4
type Semantic evolution
language 1 Sumerian
language 2 Akkadian
lexeme 1 uĝnim + (written logographically as KI.SU.LU.UB2.GAR)
lexeme 2 ummānum
meaning 1 camp
direction
meaning 2 military force, troops, army
reference CAD: U/W 102f.
comment

On the logographic level (KI.SU.LU.UB2.GAR), Sum. uĝnim literally means 'a place where the army is located', i.e. military camp, with the determinative {ki} for geographical names [see further Englund 1990: 132-133].

Cf. in Ebla Akkadian the same literal meaning for EREN2.KI.GAR 'the place where the troops reside'. In lexical list [VE 140b] the lexeme is glossed as maš-bi2-tum /maṣbi'tum/ 'troops, army' (< PS * ṣ̂aba'-) and u3-ma-num2 /'ummānum/ 'troops' (= Akk. ummānum).