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trophæal

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

Etymologies

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

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