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victory¹

  • /ˈvɪktəɹi/ UK
  • [ˈvɪktʰəɹɪi̯] UK
  • /ˈvɪktəɹɪj/ British, Southern, Standard
  • /ˈvɪkt͡ʃ(ə)ɹɪj/ British, Southern, Standard
  • /ˈvɪktɚi/ US
  • [ˈvɪktʰɚɪi̯] ~ [ˈvɪktʰɹ̩ɪi̯] US

Where it comes from

The noun is derived from Middle English victory, victori, victorie (“supremacy, victory; a defeat or vanquishing, conquest; superior military force; might, power, strength; triumphal celebration or procession; monument commemorating a defeat; superior position, dominance; mastery; moral victory, vindication; success, triumph; redemption, salvation; resurrection of Jesus; means of achieving spiritual victory; reward for or token of perseverance in a spiritual struggle”) [and other forms], borrowed from Anglo-Norman victorie and Old French victorie, a variant of victoire (“victory, win”) (modern French victoire), from Latin victōria (“victory”), from victor (“champion, winner, victor; conqueror, vanquisher”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to contain, envelop; to overcome”)) + -ia (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). The English word is analysable as victor + -y (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a condition, quality, or state), and displaced Middle English siȝe, sye.

The interjection is derived from the noun.

Cognates

Cognate with French victoire, Italian vittoria, Portuguese vitoria, Spanish victoria, Romanian victorie.

Tamil வெற்றி (veṟṟi) (pronounced roughly like "vetri") is a false cognate.

noun victories · victorie

  1. uncountable The condition or state of having won a battle or competition, or having succeeded in an effort; (countable) an instance of this. It was a great victory on the battlefield.
  2. Roman, countable, uncountable Alternative letter-case form of Victory (“(uncountable) the Roman goddess of victory, the counterpart of the Greek goddess Nike; also (countable), an artistic depiction of her, chiefly as a winged woman”).Victory All along the Champs Elysées were […] statues of plaster representing nymphs, triumphs, victories, and other female personages painted in oil so as to represent marble; real marble could have had no better effect, and the appearance of the whole was lively and picturesque in the extreme.

interjection

  1. Used to encourage someone to achieve success, or to celebrate a success or triumph. Saint George and Victory; fight Souldiers, fight: […]

victory²

  • /ˈvɪktəɹi/ UK
  • [ˈvɪktʰəɹɪi̯] UK
  • /ˈvɪktəɹɪj/ British, Southern, Standard
  • /ˈvɪkt͡ʃ(ə)ɹɪj/ British, Southern, Standard
  • /ˈvɪktɚi/ US
  • [ˈvɪktʰɚɪi̯] ~ [ˈvɪktʰɹ̩ɪi̯] US

Where it comes from

From Middle English victorien (“to overcome, vanquish”), from Old French victorier, or from Medieval Latin victōriāre, from Latin victōria (noun); see further at etymology 1.

Cognates

* Italian vittoriare

verb victories · victorying · victoried

  1. obsolete, rare, transitive To defeat or triumph over (someone or something). [W]hen ſin got the upper hand of us, and vvee victoried by them; vve vvere then their ſervants, their ſlave: vvhen vvee overcome and have victoried them; let us make them our ſlaves perpetually; let us bind them in chaines, caſt them in priſon, and for ever utterly deſtroy their evill povver: […]

Victory³

proper noun Victorys · Victories · victory

  1. uncountable The 48th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
  2. countable, uncountable A surname.
  3. Roman, uncountable Synonym of Victoria (“the Roman goddess of victory, the counterpart of the Greek goddess Nike”); also (countable), an artistic depiction of her, chiefly as a winged woman. All along the Champs Elysées were […] statues of plaster representing nymphs, triumphs, victories, and other female personages painted in oil so as to represent marble; real marble could have had no better effect, and the appearance of the whole was lively and picturesque in the extreme.
  4. countable, uncountable A town in Cayuga County, New York.
  5. countable, uncountable A village in Saratoga County, New York.
  6. countable, uncountable A neighbourhood of Camden, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  7. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Oklahoma.
  8. countable, uncountable A town in Essex County, Vermont.
  9. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Wheatland, Vernon County, Wisconsin.
  10. countable, uncountable A rural municipality in Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Victory No. 226.
  11. countable, uncountable A volcano in Papua New Guinea, also known as Mount Victory.
  12. Philippines, abbreviation, colloquial, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Ellipsis of Victory Liner, a bus company.Victory Liner

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