Trophæal
Pronunciation
- RP enPR: tr?f???l, IPA: en, /t????fi??l/
- GA enPR: tr?f???l, IPA: en, /t?o??fi.?l/
Alternative forms
Origin
From the , trophaeum ("trophy, monument to victory in war"); suffixing to the stem trophæ- the suffix .
Full definition of trophæal
Adjective
trophæal
- (obsolete) Pertaining to a trophy or to trophies.
- (obsolete) Adorned with trophies.
- (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 ?o many remarkable remains, and collections ?o curious, that we are ?orry to pa?s by it cur?orily. We advi?e the reader and the traveller to be le?s ha?ty. The trophæal arch and the ?epulchral monument, at Glanum Livii, a colony probably e?tabli?hed by M. Livius Dru?us Libo, afford al?o ?everal circum?tances, which will intere?t the attentive traveller.
- Exhibited as a trophy of victory in war.