victoria

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English

Etymology

Named after Queen Victoria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɪkˈtɔːɹi.ə/
• 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.

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

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.

Related terms

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

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.
• “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

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

Noun

victoria f (plural victorias)

1. victory

   Synonym: vencida

2. triumph

   Synonym: triunfo

Derived terms

Related terms

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