different between victor vs evictor

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

evict +? -or

Noun

evictor (plural evictors)

1. One who evicts