English Online Dictionary. What means victor? What does victor mean?
Translingual
Noun
victor
- Alternative letter-case form of Victor of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.
English
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English victour, victor, from Anglo-Norman victor, Latin victor (“conqueror”). Doublet of Victor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvɪk.tə(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -ɪktə(ɹ)
- Homophone: Victor
Noun
victor (plural victors)
- The winner in a fight or contest.
- Synonyms: winner, conqueror
- (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Victor from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
Derived terms
Related terms
- victorious
- victory
- victrice
- victrix
Translations
Further reading
- “victor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “victor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “victor”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *wiktōr, from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to overcome”). By surface analysis, vincō (“to conquer”) (supine stem vict-) + -tor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯ik.tor/, [ˈu̯ɪkt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvik.tor/, [ˈvikt̪or]
Noun
victor m (genitive victōris, feminine victrīx); third declension
- conqueror, vanquisher
- victor, winner, champion
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
- Italian: vittore
- Middle French: victeur
Adjective
victor (feminine victrīx); third-declension one-termination adjective
- (of masculine nouns, animate or inanimate) victorious, triumphant, conquering
Declension
Declined like the noun, with masculine forms only. Feminine forms and neuter plural forms are supplied by victrīx.
Related terms
- victōria
Descendants
- Italian: vittore
Further reading
- “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.
- “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