victoria

See also: Victoria, victória, and victòria

English

Etymology

Named after Queen Victoria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɪkˈtɔːɹi.ə/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːɹiə

Noun

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.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:victoria.

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin victōria.

Noun

victoria f (plural victories)

1. victory

Related terms

• victoriosu

See also

• trunfu

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin victōria.

Noun

victoria f (plural victorias)

1. victory

   Synonym: triunfo

   Antonym: derrota

Related terms

• victorioso

Latin

Etymology

From victor (“conqueror”) +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯ikˈtoː.ri.a/, [u̯ɪkˈt̪oːriä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vikˈto.ri.a/, [vikˈt̪ɔːriä]

Noun

victōria f (genitive victōriae); first declension

1. victory

   Antonyms: clādēs, incommodum, dētrīmentum, calamitās, vulnus

Declension

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

• victor
• victōriālis
• victōriātus
• victōriōsus
• victrīx

 

Descendants

• → Albanian: fitore (via some Balkan Romance language)
• → Asturian: victoria
• → Catalan: victòria
• → Dutch: victorie
• → Galician: victoria
• → Italian: vittoria
• → Old French: victorie, victoire
  • Middle French: victoire
    • French: victoire
  • → Middle English: victory, victorie
    • English: victory, victorie
      • → Maori: wikitōriatanga
    • Scots: veectory
  • Walloon: victwere
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: vitoria
  • Galician: vitoria
  • Portuguese: vitória
• → Romanian: victorie
• → Spanish: victoria
• → Sicilian: vittoria
  • → Maltese: vittorja
• → Venetian: vitoria

References

• “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 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

Noun

victoria f (plural victorias)

1. Obsolete form of vitória.

Spanish

Alternative forms

• vitoria (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin victōria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biɡˈtoɾja/ [biɣ̞ˈt̪o.ɾja]

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• Rhymes: -oɾja
• Syllabification: vic‧to‧ria

Noun

victoria f (plural victorias)

1. victory

   Synonym: triunfo

Derived terms

• Día de la Victoria
• victoria pírrica

 

Related terms

• invicto
• vencer
• victorioso
• vítor

 

Further reading

• “victoria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014