victorie

English

Noun

victorie (plural victories)

1. Obsolete spelling of victory.
   • c. 1587 (date written), [Thomas Kyd], The Spanish Tragedie: […] (Fourth Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for T[homas] Pauier, […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act I:

     Hieronimo, it greatly pleaſeth vs, / That in our victorie thou haue a ſhare, / By vertue of thy vvorthy Sonnes exployt.

   • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 164, column 1:

     VVhy ſo: then am I ſure of Victorie. Novv therefore let vs hence, and loſe no hovvre, / Till vvee meet VVarvvicke, vvith his forreine povvre.

   • c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:

     Fortune and victorie ſet on thy helme.

     A personification.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 1460–1461:

     [S]uffering for Truths ſake / Is fortitude to higheſt victorie, […]

Old French

Alternative forms

• victoire

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin victōria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vikˈtɔɾjə/

Noun

victorie oblique singular, f (oblique plural victories, nominative singular victorie, nominative plural victories)

1. victory

Descendants

• Middle French: victoire
  • French: victoire
• → Middle English: victory, victorie
  • English: victory, victorie
    • → Maori: wikitōriatanga
  • Scots: veectory
• Walloon: victwere

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin victōria.

Noun

victorie f (plural victorii)

1. victory

   Synonyms: izbândă, biruință, triumf

Declension

Declension of victorie

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) victorie	victoria	(niște) victorii	victoriile
genitive/dative	(unei) victorii	victoriei	(unor) victorii	victoriilor
vocative	victorie, victorio		victoriilor

Related terms

• victorios
• învinge