victoria

See also: Victoria, victória, and victòria

English

Etymology

Named after Queen Victoria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɪkˈtɔːɹi.ə/

• Audio (Canada):

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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.

   • 1972, Abulhasan 'Ali Nadvi, The Musalman, page 42:

     The Muslim ladies who earlier moved out in covered palanquins, dolis and muhafas or completely veiled coaches and victorias are now obliged to go about in tongas, rikshaws and buses leaving aside the earlier scruples.

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

Alternative forms

• vitoria

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin victōria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bikˈtɔɾja/ [bikˈt̪ɔ.ɾjɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɔɾja
• Hyphenation: vic‧to‧ria

Noun

victoria f (plural victorias)

1. victory

   Synonym: triunfo

   Antonym: derrota

Related terms

• victorioso

Latin

Etymology

From victor (“conqueror”) +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯ikˈtoː.ri.a/, [u̯ɪkˈt̪oːriä]
• (modern Italianate 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.

	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
• → Venetan: vitoria
• → Oscan: 𐌅𐌝𐌊𐌕𐌖𐌓𐌓𐌀𐌝 (víkturraí)

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 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
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

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]

• Audio (Colombia):

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

Noun

victoria f (plural victorias)

1. victory

   Synonym: vencida

2. triumph

   Synonym: triunfo

Derived terms

• cantar la victoria
• Día de la Victoria
• victoria pírrica

Related terms

• invicto
• vencer
• victorioso
• vítor

Further reading

• “victoria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10