See also: Victor and Víctor

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Noun

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victor

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

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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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.

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Latin

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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

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

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative victor victōrēs
genitive victōris victōrum
dative victōrī victōribus
accusative victōrem victōrēs
ablative victōre victōribus
vocative victor victōrēs

Descendants

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  • Middle French: victeur

Adjective

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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 1.10.5.1:
      Inde exercitu victore 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 his victorious 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
    • 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

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

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Further reading

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  • 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