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See also:VictorandVíctor

Translingual

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Noun

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victor

  1. Alternativeletter-case form ofVictorof the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.

English

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Etymology

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Inherited fromMiddle Englishvictour,victor, fromAnglo-Normanvictor,Latinvictor(conqueror).Doublet ofVictor.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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victor (pluralvictors)

  1. Thewinner in afight orcontest.
    Synonyms:winner,conqueror
    • 2011 October 23, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City”, inBBC Sport[1]:
      City were also thevictors on that occasion 56 years ago, winning 5-0, but this visit was portrayed as a measure of their progress against the 19-time champions.
  2. (international standards)Alternativeletter-case form ofVictorfrom theNATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

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Translations

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winner in a fight or contestseewinner

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Latin

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Etymology

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FromProto-Italic*wiktōr, fromProto-Indo-European*weyk-(to overcome).Bysurface analysis,vincō(to conquer)(supine stemvict-) +‎-tor.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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victor m (genitivevictōris,femininevictrīx);third declension

  1. conqueror,vanquisher
  2. victor,winner,champion

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singularplural
nominativevictorvictōrēs
genitivevictōrisvictōrum
dativevictōrīvictōribus
accusativevictōremvictōrēs
ablativevictōrevictōribus
vocativevictorvictōrēs

Descendants

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Adjective

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victor (femininevictrīx);third-declension one-termination adjective

  1. (of masculine nouns, animate or inanimate)victorious,triumphant,conquering
    • 27BCE – 25BCE,Titus Livius,Ab Urbe Condita1.10.5.1:
      Inde exercituvictore reducto, ipse, cum factis vir magnificus tum factorum ostentator haud minor, spolia ducis hostium caesi suspensa fabricato ad id apte ferculo gerens in Capitolium escendit
      • 1919 translation by B. O. Foster
        He then led hisvictorious army back, and being not more splendid in his deeds than willing to display them, he arranged the spoils of the enemy’s dead commander upon a frame, suitably fashioned for the purpose, and, carrying it himself, mounted the Capitol
    • 27BCE – 25BCE,Titus Livius,Ab Urbe Condita1.25.11.5:
      Alterum intactum ferro corpus et geminata victoria ferocem in certamen tertium dabat: alter fessum vulnere fessum cursu trahens corpus, victusque fratrum ante se stragevictori obicitur hosti.
      • 1919 translation by B. O. Foster
        The one, unscathed and elated by his double victory, was eager for a third encounter. The other dragged himself along, faint from his wound and exhausted with running; he thought how his brothers had been slaughtered before him, and was a beaten man when he faced histriumphant foe.

Declension

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Declined like the noun, with masculine forms only. Feminine forms and neuter plural forms are supplied byvictrīx.

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Further reading

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  • victor”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • victor”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "victor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • victor inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[2], London:Macmillan and Co.
    • to beg for mercy from the conqueror:salutem petere a victore
    • to give up one's person and all one's possessions to the conqueror:se suaque omnia dedere victori
    • to give up one's person and all one's possessions to the conqueror:se suaque omnia permittere victoris potestati
    • the victorious army:exercitus victor
    • to come off victorious:superiorem (opp.inferiorem),victorem (proelio, pugna) discedere
  • victor”, inThe Perseus Project (1999)Perseus Encyclopedia[3]
  • victor”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • victor”, inWilliam Smith, editor (1848),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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