different between victor vs champion

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin victor (“a conqueror”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?v?k.t?(?)/

Noun

victor (plural victors)

1. The winner in a fight or contest.
2. Victor, the letter V in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

Synonyms

• winner
• conqueror

Derived terms

• victoress, victress
• victorious (adjective)
• victory (noun)

Related terms

• victrice
• victrix

Translations

Further reading

• victor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• victor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• victor at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latin

Etymology

Consists of vic- +? -tor, from Proto-Indo-European *wi-n-k-, nasal infix from *weyk- (“to overcome”).

Latin vic- is also the root of vinc? (“to conquer”).

The female form is victrix.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?ik.tor/, [?u??kt??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vik.tor/, [?vikt??r]

Noun

victor m (genitive vict?ris, feminine victr?x); third declension

1. conqueror, vanquisher
2. victor, winner, champion

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Adjective

victor (genitive vict?ris); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. victorious, triumphant, conquering

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Related terms

• vict?ria

References

• victor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• victor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• victor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• victor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• victor in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[3]
• victor in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• victor in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

English

Etymology

From Middle English champioun, from Old French champion, from Medieval Latin campio (“combatant in a duel, champion”), from Frankish *kampij? (“fighter”), from Proto-West Germanic *kampij? (“combat soldier”), a derivative of Proto-West Germanic *kampijan (“to battle, to campaign”), itself a derivative of Proto-West Germanic *kamp (“battlefield, battle”), ultimately a borrowing in Proto-West-Germanic from Latin campus (“a field, a plain, a place of action”).

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t?æmpi?n/

Noun

champion (plural champions)

1. An ongoing winner in a game or contest.

2. Someone who is chosen to represent a group of people in a contest.

3. Someone who fights for a cause or status.

   Synonym: paladin

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     Specific outcomes from this policy included the appointment of a Digital Champion to drive forward the efforts to get more of the excluded to be included.

4. Someone who fights on another's behalf.

Hyponyms

• championess

Derived terms

• championess

Descendants

Translations

Adjective

champion (not comparable)

1. (attributive) Acting as a champion; having defeated all one's competitors.
2. (attributive) Excellent; beyond compare.
3. (predicative, Ireland, Britain, dialect) Excellent; brilliant; superb; deserving of high praise.

Related terms

• championship

Translations

Verb

champion (third-person singular simple present champions, present participle championing, simple past and past participle championed)

1. (transitive) To promote, advocate, or act as a champion for (a cause, etc.).
2. (obsolete, transitive) To challenge.

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “champion”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
• champion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• champion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• champion at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Etymology

From Old French champion, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin campi?, campi?nem (“champion, fighter”), from Frankish *kampij?, from Proto-Germanic *kampijô, based on Latin campus (“level ground”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.pj??/

Noun

champion m (plural champions)

1. champion

Derived terms

• champion du monde
• championnat
• championner

Related terms

• champ

Descendants

• ? Czech: šampión
• ? Slovak: šampión
• ? Turkish: ?ampiyon

Further reading

• “champion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Noun

champion

1. Alternative form of champioun