Trophæal

Pronunciation

• RP enPR: trōfēʹəl, IPA: /tɹəʊˈfiːəl/

Alternative forms

• trophaeal, trophaeall, tropheal

Origin

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

Full definition of trophæal

Adjective

1. (obsolete) Pertaining to a trophy or to trophies.
2. (obsolete) Adorned with trophies.
• 1660: Character of Italy, by an English Chyrurgion, page 6Her streets of old did shine with trumphing Cæsars and Consuls in their trophæal Chariots.
3. (Roman antiquity, of a monument or memorial) Erected without Senatical grant by a prevailing general as a trophy (or tropæum) commemorating a battle in which he was victorious; compare triumphal.
• 1788?: Tobias Smollett ed., , volume 65, page 454This place contains Å¿o many remarkable remains, and collections Å¿o curious, that we are Å¿orry to paÅ¿s by it curÅ¿orily. We adviÅ¿e the reader and the traveller to be leÅ¿s haÅ¿ty. The trophæal arch and the Å¿epulchral monument, at Glanum Livii, a colony probably eÅ¿tabliÅ¿hed by M. Livius DruÅ¿us Libo, afford alÅ¿o Å¿everal circumÅ¿tances, which will intereÅ¿t the attentive traveller.
4. Exhibited as a trophy of victory in war.