victor

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Translingual

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Noun

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victor

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

English

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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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Translations

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winner in a fight or contest — see winner

Further reading

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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.

Case 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 1.25.11.5:
      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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Descendants

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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
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