triumphant

English

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin triumphans. Surface analysis is triumph +‎ -ant (“adjective ending”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹaɪˈʌmfənt/

Adjective

triumphant (comparative more triumphant, superlative most triumphant)

1. Celebrating victory.

   a triumphant chariot

   So shall it be in the church triumphant.

   Athena, war's triumphant maid...

   • 2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman^[1]:

     Strachan emerged triumphant from the battle of former Celtic managers at the venue where they both enjoyed some of the highest points of their coaching careers.

Synonyms

• triumphal

Derived terms

• triumphantly

Related terms

• triumph

Translations

celebrating victory

• Arabic: مَنْصُور‏‎ (ar) (manṣūr)
• Asturian: trunfante
• Catalan: triomfant, triomfador
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狂欢的, 庆功的

• Czech: vítězoslavný m
• Dutch: triomfant (nl)
• Finnish: voitonriemuinen
• French: triomphal (fr)
• Galician: triunfador, triunfante
• German: triumphierend

• Hungarian: diadalmas (hu), diadalmaskodó
• Italian: trionfante (it)
• Latin: victor (la)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: triumferende

• Occitan: triomfant
• Portuguese: triunfante (pt), triunfador
• Romanian: triumfător (ro) m, victorios (ro) m, triumfant m
• Russian: победоно́сный (ru) (pobedonósnyj), торжеству́ющий (ru) (toržestvújuščij), лику́ющий (ru) (likújuščij)
• Spanish: triunfante, triunfador

Further reading

• “triumphant” in Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language, volume II (J–Z), 1st edition, New York, N.Y.: Published by S. Converse; printed by Hezekiah Howe, New Haven, 1828, OCLC 999480247.
• triumphant in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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Latin

Verb

triumphant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of triumphō