victoria
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Named after Queen Victoria.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]victoria (plural victorias)
- 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.
Quotations
[edit]- For quotations using this term, see Citations:victoria.
Asturian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]victoria f (plural victories)
Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Galician
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin victōria.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]victoria f (plural victorias)
Related terms
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From victor (“conqueror”) + -ia.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /u̯ikˈtoː.ri.a/, [u̯ɪkˈt̪oːriä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /vikˈto.ri.a/, [vikˈt̪ɔːriä]
Noun
[edit]victōria f (genitive victōriae); first declension
- 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 |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Albanian: fitore (via some Balkan Romance language)
- → Asturian: victoria
- → Catalan: victòria
- → Dutch: victorie
- → Galician: victoria
- → Italian: vittoria
- → Old French: victorie, victoire
- → Old Galician-Portuguese: vitoria
- → Romanian: victorie
- → Spanish: victoria
- → Sicilian: vittoria
- → Maltese: vittorja
- → Venetian: vitoria
References
[edit]- “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)
- our generation has seen many victories: nostra aetas multas victorias vidit
- “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
Portuguese
[edit]Noun
[edit]victoria f (plural victorias)
Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /biɡˈtoɾja/ [biɣ̞ˈt̪o.ɾja]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -oɾja
- Syllabification: vic‧to‧ria
Noun
[edit]victoria f (plural victorias)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “victoria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weyk- (contain)
- English 4-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɔːɹiə
- Rhymes:English/ɔːɹiə/4 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- English eponyms
- en:Carriages
- Asturian terms borrowed from Latin
- Asturian terms derived from Latin
- Asturian lemmas
- Asturian nouns
- Asturian feminine nouns
- Galician terms borrowed from Latin
- Galician learned borrowings from Latin
- Galician terms derived from Latin
- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Galician/ɔɾja
- Rhymes:Galician/ɔɾja/3 syllables
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician countable nouns
- Galician feminine nouns
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weyk- (contain)
- Latin terms suffixed with -ia
- Latin 4-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin first declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the first declension
- Latin feminine nouns
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Portuguese obsolete forms
- Spanish terms borrowed from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Spanish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Spanish/oɾja
- Rhymes:Spanish/oɾja/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns