victoria

Etymology

Named after Queen Victoria.

Pronunciation

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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, Robert William Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 24962326:

     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.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin victōria.

Noun

victoria f (plural victories)

1. victory

See also

• trunfu

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin victōria.

Noun

victoria f (plural victorias)

1. victory

   Synonym: triunfo

   Antonym: derrota

Etymology

From victor (“conqueror”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /wikˈtoː.ri.a/, [wɪkˈtoː.ri.a]

Noun

victōria f (genitive victōriae); first declension

1. victory

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, 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

Noun

victoria f (plural victorias)

1. Obsolete form of vitória.

Alternative forms

• vitoria (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin victōria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bikˈto.ɾia/, [bikˈto̞ɾjä]

Noun

victoria f (plural victorias)

1. victory

   Synonym: triunfo