victor

See also: Victor and Víctor

Translingual

Noun

victor

1. Alternative letter-case form of Victor of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English victour, victor, from Anglo-Norman victor, Latin victor (“conqueror”). Doublet of Victor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪk.tə(ɹ)/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪktə(ɹ)
• Homophone: Victor

Noun

victor (plural victors)

1. The winner in a fight or contest.

   Synonyms: winner, conqueror

   • 2011 October 23, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     City were also the victors 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) Alternative letter-case form of Victor from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

Derived terms

• to the victor go the spoils
• victoress
• victor ludorum
• victress

 

Related terms

• victorious
• victory
• victrice
• victrix

Translations

winner in a fight or contest — see winner

Further reading

• “victor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “victor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “victor”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *wiktōr, from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to overcome”). By surface analysis, vincō (“to conquer”) (supine stem vict-) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯ik.tor/, [ˈu̯ɪkt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvik.tor/, [ˈvikt̪or]

Noun

victor m (genitive victōris, feminine victrīx); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	victor	victōrēs
Genitive	victōris	victōrum
Dative	victōrī	victōribus
Accusative	victōrem	victōrēs
Ablative	victōre	victōribus
Vocative	victor	victōrēs

Descendants

• Middle French: victeur

Adjective

victor (genitive victōris); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. (of masculine nouns, animate or inanimate) victorious, triumphant, conquering
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 1.25.11.5:

     Alterum intactum ferro corpus et geminata victoria ferocem in certamen tertium dabat: alter fessum vulnere fessum cursu trahens corpus, victusque fratrum ante se strage victori 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 his triumphant foe.

Declension

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

Related terms

• victōria

Descendants

• Italian: vittore

Further reading

• “victor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “victor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• victor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• victor in Gaffiot, 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”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[3]
• “victor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “victor”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray