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victoria

See also: Victoria, victória, and victòria

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Etymology

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Named after Queen Victoria.

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Noun

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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.

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Asturian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin victōria.

Noun

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victoria f (plural victories)

  1. victory
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Galician

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin victōria.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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victoria f (plural victorias)

  1. victory
    Synonym: triunfo
    Antonym: derrota
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Latin

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Etymology

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From victor (“conqueror”) +‎ -ia.

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Noun

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victōria f (genitive victōriae); first declension

  1. victory
    Antonyms: clādēs, incommodum, dētrīmentum, calamitās, vulnus

Declension

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative victōria victōriae
genitive victōriae victōriārum
dative victōriae victōriīs
accusative victōriam victōriās
ablative victōriā victōriīs
vocative victōria victōriae
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References

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  • “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

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Noun

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victoria f (plural victorias)

  1. Obsolete form of vitória.

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin victōria.

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Noun

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victoria f (plural victorias)

  1. victory
    Synonym: vencida
  2. triumph
    Synonym: triunfo

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