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victoria

See also: Victoria, victória, and victòria

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Etymology edit

Named after Queen Victoria.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /vɪkˈtɔːɹi.ə/
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  • Rhymes: -ɔːɹiə

Noun edit

victoria (plural victorias)

  1. A kind of low four-wheeled pleasure carriage, with a calash top, designed for two persons and the driver who occupies a high seat in front.
    • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 6:
      It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin victōria.

Noun edit

victoria f (plural victories)

  1. victory

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Galician edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin victōria.

Noun edit

victoria f (plural victorias)

  1. victory
    Synonym: triunfo
    Antonym: derrota

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Latin edit

Etymology edit

From victor (“conqueror”) +‎ -ia.

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Noun edit

victōria f (genitive victōriae); first declension

  1. victory
    Antonyms: clādēs, incommodum, dētrīmentum, calamitās, vulnus

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative victōria victōriae
Genitive victōriae victōriārum
Dative victōriae victōriīs
Accusative victōriam victōriās
Ablative victōriā victōriīs
Vocative victōria victōriae

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  • “victoria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “victoria”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • victoria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • our generation has seen many victories: nostra aetas multas victorias vidit
    • to gain a victory, win a battle: victoriam adipisci, parere
    • to gain a victory, win a battle: victoriam ferre, referre
    • to gain a victory over the enemy: victoriam reportare ab hoste
    • to consider oneself already victor: victoriam praecipere (animo) (Liv. 10. 26)
    • to let a sure victory slip through one's hands: victoriam exploratam dimittere
    • as if the victory were already won: sicut parta iam atque explorata victoria
    • to raise a shout of victory: victoriam conclamare (B. G. 5. 37)
    • to congratulate a person on his victory: victoriam or de victoria gratulari alicui
    • the victory cost much blood and many wounds, was very dearly bought: victoria multo sanguine ac vulneribus stetit (Liv. 23. 30)
    • to triumph over some one: triumphum agere de or ex aliquo or c. Gen. (victoriae, pugnae)
  • “victoria”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “victoria”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • “victoria”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

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Noun edit

victoria f (plural victorias)

  1. Obsolete form of vitória.

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Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin victōria.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /biɡˈtoɾja/ [biɣ̞ˈt̪o.ɾja]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -oɾja
  • Syllabification: vic‧to‧ria

Noun edit

victoria f (plural victorias)

  1. victory
    Synonym: vencida
  2. triumph
    Synonym: triunfo

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