conqueror

English

Alternative forms

• conquerour (obsolete)
• conquerer

Etymology

Old French conquereor, from conquerre,

Noun

conqueror (plural conquerors)

1. Someone who conquers
   • 2018 November 18, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 1 Croatia”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Croatia, England's World Cup semi-final conquerors in Moscow in July, looked set to inflict their curse once more and relegate Gareth Southgate's side from the elite group when Andrej Kramaric's twisting finish put them ahead via a deflection off Eric Dier after 57 minutes.

Synonyms

• vanquisher
• victor
• subjugator

Hyponyms

• (female conqueror): conqueress

Translations

someone who conquers

• Afrikaans: veroweraar
• Bulgarian: завоева́тел (bg) m (zavoevátel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 佔領者／占领者 (zh) (zhànlǐngzhě), 占领者 (zh) (zhànlǐngzhě), 征服者 (zh) (zhēngfúzhě)

• Czech: dobyvatel (cs) m
• Dutch: overwinnaar (nl) m, veroveraar (nl) m
• Esperanto: konkerinto
• Extremaduran: conquistaol
• Finnish: valloittaja (fi)
• French: conquérant (fr) m, conquérante (fr) f
• Friulian: concuistadôr m
• Galician: conqueridor m, conqueredor m
• German: Eroberer (de) m, Erobererin f, Bezwinger m, Bezwingerin f
• Hungarian: hódító (hu)
• Indonesian: pemenang (id)
• Italian: conquistatore m
• Japanese: 征服者 (せいふくしゃ, seifukusha)
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• Korean: 정복자 (ko) (jeongbokja)
• Latin: dēbellātor m, victor (la) m, superātor m
• Latvian: uzvarētājs m, iekarotājs m
• Norman: contchérant m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: erobrer m

  Nynorsk: erobrar m

• Polish: zdobywca (pl) m
• Portuguese: conquistador (pt) m
• Russian: завоева́тель (ru) m (zavojevátelʹ), завоева́тельница (ru) f (zavojevátelʹnica), покори́тель (ru) m (pokorítelʹ), покори́тельница (ru) f (pokorítelʹnica)
• Sanskrit: दानु (sa) m (dānu)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: osvajač (sh) m, zavojevač (sh) m, savlađivač m

• Spanish: conquistador (es) m
• Swedish: erövrare (sv) c
• Turkish: fatih (tr)

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Latin

Etymology

From con- +‎ queror.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.kʷe.ror/, [ˈkɔŋkʷɛrɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.kwe.ror/, [ˈkɔŋkweror]

Verb

conqueror (present infinitive conquerī, perfect active conquestus sum); third conjugation, deponent

1. I complain, bewail, lament
2. I deplore

Conjugation

Conjugation of conqueror (third conjugation, deponent)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	conqueror	conquereris, conquerere	conqueritur	conquerimur	conqueriminī	conqueruntur
	imperfect	conquerēbar	conquerēbāris, conquerēbāre	conquerēbātur	conquerēbāmur	conquerēbāminī	conquerēbantur
	future	conquerar	conquerēris, conquerēre	conquerētur	conquerēmur	conquerēminī	conquerentur
	perfect	conquestus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	conquestus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	conquestus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	conquerar	conquerāris, conquerāre	conquerātur	conquerāmur	conquerāminī	conquerantur
	imperfect	conquererer	conquererēris, conquererēre	conquererētur	conquererēmur	conquererēminī	conquererentur
	perfect	conquestus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	conquestus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	conquerere	—	—	conqueriminī	—
	future	—	conqueritor	conqueritor	—	—	conqueruntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		conquerī	conquestum esse	conquestūrum esse	—	—	—
participles		conquerēns	conquestus	conquestūrus	—	—	conquerendus, conquerundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		conquerendī	conquerendō	conquerendum	conquerendō	conquestum	conquestū

References

• “conqueror”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “conqueror”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• conqueror in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to expostulate with a person about a thing: conqueri, expostulare cum aliquo de aliqua re