## Etymology
From Anglo-Norman champartie, from Old French champart ('field-rent, a lord's share of a tenant's crop'), from Latin campi pars ('part of the field'), from campus ('field') + pars ('part').

## AI Etymology
Champerty comes from Anglo-Norman champartie, from Old French champart ('field-rent, a lord's share of a tenant's crop'), from Latin campi pars ('part of the field'), from campus ('field') + pars ('part'). The historical trail runs through campart in Old French and campus in Latin. Morphologically, champerty is transparent: it draws on Anglo-Norman champartie, from Old French champart ('field-rent, a lord's share of a tenant's crop'), from Latin campi pars ('part of the field'), from campus ('field') + pars ('part'). Used as a noun, champerty now means "an illegal bargain to fund another's lawsuit for a share of the proceeds", so the present definition can be read against the older forms and meanings. The same lexical family is also visible in related forms such as champertous and champartor. The result is a borrowed or transmitted form whose modern spelling carries a compact record of its route into English.

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