triunfo

triunfo

1. first-person singular present indicative of triunfar

• triumpho (pre-standardization spelling)
• triumfo (obsolete)
• triũfo (obsolete, abbreviation)

• Rhymes: -ũfu
• Hyphenation: tri‧un‧fo

Learned borrowing from Latin triumphus (“triumphal procession”), from Old Latin triumpus, from Etruscan *𐌈𐌓𐌉𐌀𐌌𐌐𐌄 (*θriampe), from Ancient Greek θρίαμβος (thríambos, “thriambus”). Doublet of trunfo.

triunfo m (plural triunfos)

1. triumph (conclusive success; victory; conquest)

   Synonyms: aclamação, êxito, sucesso, vitória

   Antonyms: derrota, fracasso

   • 1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “Lincoln e Grant”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, published 1905, page 282:

     A democracia não está, pois, destinada a morrer como as outras fórmas sociaes que a precederam, e que não foram senão a lenta preparação do seu triumpho, comquanto pareçam as suas inimigas irreconciliaveis.

     Democracy is not, therefore, destined to die like the other forms of society that preceded it, and that were naught but the slow preparation for its triumph, though they seem like its irreconcilable enemies.

2. (historical, Ancient Rome) triumph (ceremony to celebrate someone’s military achievement)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

triunfo

1. first-person singular present indicative of triunfar

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾjunfo/ [ˈt̪ɾjũɱ.fo]
• Rhymes: -unfo
• Syllabification: triun‧fo

From Latin triumphus.

triunfo m (plural triunfos)

1. triumph

   Synonym: victoria

• triumpho (obsolete)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

triunfo

1. first-person singular present indicative of triunfar

• “triunfo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024