English Explanatory Dictionary

trophæal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Pertaining to a trophy or to trophies.
  2. Adorned with trophies.
  3. Erected without Senatical grant by a prevailing general as a trophy (or tropæum) commemorating a battle in which he was victorious; compare triumphal.
  4. Exhibited as a trophy of victory in war.

Pronunciation

trōfēʹəl /tɹəʊˈfiːəl/ /tɹoʊˈfi.əl/

Word forms

trophæal trophaeal trophaeall tropheal

Etymology

From the Latin tropaeum, trophaeum (“trophy, monument to victory in war”); suffixing to the stem trophæ- the suffix -al.

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