victoria

Named after Queen Victoria.

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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, Robert William Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, 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.

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:victoria.

Borrowed from Latin victōria.

victoria f (plural victories)

1. victory

• victoriosu

• trunfu

Borrowed from Latin victōria.

victoria f (plural victorias)

1. victory

   Synonym: triunfo

   Antonym: derrota

• victorioso

From victor (“conqueror”).

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

victōria f (genitive victōriae); first declension

1. victory

First declension.

• → Albanian: fitore (via some Balkan Romance language)
• → Asturian: victoria
• → Catalan: victòria
• → Dutch: victorie
• → English: victory
• → Galician: victoria
• → Italian: vittoria
• → Old French: victorie, victoire
  • Middle French: victoire
    • French: victoire
  • → Middle English: victory, victorie
  • Walloon: victwere
    • English: victory
      • → Maori: wikitōriatanga
    • Scots: veectory
• → Old Portuguese: vitoria
  • Galician: vitoria
  • Portuguese: vitória
• → Romanian: victorie
• → Spanish: victoria
• → Sicilian: vittoria
  • → Maltese: vittorja
• → Venetian: vitoria

• 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

victoria f (plural victorias)

1. Obsolete form of vitória.

• vitoria (archaic)

Borrowed from Latin victōria.

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

victoria f (plural victorias)

1. victory

   Synonym: triunfo