Translation
triumph
Word origin
From Latin triumphus, the ceremonial procession granted to a victorious Roman general. The Latin is probably borrowed from Greek thriambos, a hymn to Dionysus, most likely by way of Etruscan.
- Origin
- Latin, from Greek
- Root
- triumphus
- English cognates
- triumph, triumphant, trump
Examples
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After the long war the triumph was a great one for the whole country.
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He looked at me with triumph in his eyes.
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The triumph of the new idea lasted only a few years.
There is no - in this word. The digit three is a productive element in Esperanto, so and trifolio really do begin with three, and after enough of those a learner starts seeing it everywhere. - is a single root and always was: even the Latin was a loan, taken over whole from a Greek cult-cry with nothing numerical anywhere in it.
The English family tree has one branch worth pointing at. "Trump", the card that beats the others, is a worn-down "triumph", and the card game sense is recorded in that spelling in the sixteenth century. Esperanto keeps the two apart: the card suit is atuto, from French atout, and has nothing to do with .
In use it is stronger than plain winning. Venki is the verb for beating an opponent, and venko is the win itself. is the win plus the glory and usually plus the celebration, which is the Roman sense still showing through: the general did not have a for turning up, he had one voted to him. So a football team can every week and have a once a decade. Triumfi is the verb, triumfa the adjective, and triumfe the adverb for doing something in a way that shows you know you have won.
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