triumphator

English

Etymology

From Latin triumphātor. Compare Middle English tryumphatour.

Noun

triumphator (plural triumphators)

1. One granted a triumph.
   • 1683, [Pierre] Muret, translated by P[aul] Lorrain, Rites of Funeral Ancient and Modern in Use Through the Known World, London: […] Rich. Royston, page 25:

     Which gave occasion to a Law, whereby it was enacted, that thenceforth no Dead should be buried in the City, much less kept in their Houses, as they did before; that Priviledge being only granted to Vestals, to Emperors, and those who had been Triumphators.

   • 1702, “An Index of the Principal Matters in the Annotations”, in The Tragedies of L. Annæus Seneca the Philosopher, London: […] S. Smith and B. Walford:

     Triumphs, wherein Slaves are represented bound and proſtrated at the feet of the Triumphators

   • 1838 August 16, J. E. Dx., The Morning Chronicle‎^[1], number 21,454, London, published 16 August 1938:

     Therefore must it appear to be the height of absurdity to place the conqueror at right angles with the procession of which he is the centre and with which he moves, so that whilst the procession entering the arch from the south, and proceeding in the direction of the arch to the north, or Hyde-Park here is the triumphator who “cuts the procession dead,” leaves it to proceed without its principal north, and himself, having thus cut procession, triumphal arch, and all, proceeds solus cast to Whitechapel; and this is the absurdity which you may now behold.

   • 1855 April 20, L. Kossuth, “The Visit of Napoleon and the Position of the Belligerent Powers”, in New-York Daily Times, volume IV, number 1133, New York, N.Y., published 5 May 1855, page 4:

     That the star-trusting parvenue should not have dreaded to treat the French national dignity to the feast of such a humiliating policy, that may yet pass—a tame submission to the Decembrisades may very likely generate strange dreams of misestimation in a mind like Bonaparte’s—but that he should select just that moment for a visit to England, when these revelations are published—that he should come over to England with these disclosures of humiliation brought upon England in his hands—and should, notwithstanding, be received with ovations like a triumphator, or like a great man, a look on whom brings joy and satisfaction on the looker—that certainly is a strange sight, even in these our corrupt times.

   • 1921 August 22, “Kenoshan Wins Silver Trophy. Miss Constance Cappelen is Victor in Twin Lakes Sweepstakes. Jack Blair Second”, in Kenosha Evening News, volume XXVII, number 252, Kenosha, Wis., page seven:

     Outguessing and outgeneraling a field of five opponents, victors in as many preliminary races, Miss Constance Cappelen, bookkeper^[sic] at the First National Bank, won the motorboat sweepstakes at Twin Lakes Sunday afternoon. The fair triumphator covered the 2½-mile course in 17 minutes and 56 seconds, a minute and thirty seconds ahead of her nearest competitor, Jack Blair of Twin Lakes.

   • 1925 March 29, Marie Monfils-Chesneau, K. R. Cain, transl., “Holy Days”, in The Courier-Journal, volume CXLI, number 20,542, Louisville, Ky., section 2, page 10:

     Cross, awsome and good, humble triumphator! Moving the entire world, O Sacred, wondrous wood! Spread thy light over us, our only protector, / Beyond the blue horizon, Cross, august and good.

   • 1925 December 6, Maximilian Harden, “Heaven Kind, Says Harden; Congratulates Britain That Pompous Display at Signing Pact Avoided”, in The Shreveport Times, volume LIII, number 189, Shreveport, La., page 3:

     Austen Chamberlain, who likes to let tear-bedewed rays of youthful sentimentality shine about his coldly calculating businessman’s intellect but always has in mind the interest of his fatherland, was the triumphator of the day.

   • 1927 June 26, The Owensboro Messenger, fifty-third year, number 145, Owensboro, Ky., page eight:

     Later on, in America, at the simple and sweet family hearth, when Charles Lindbergh will sit opposite his mother, flanked by his favorite kitten, and will attack the delicious pie that was promised him from afar as a first recompense for his victory, the poung^[sic] triumphator in closing his eyes will perhaps still see and hear the hurtling mob and the thunderous bravos.

   • 1937 November 20, The Minneapolis Tribune, seventy-first year, number 180, Minneapolis, Minn., page ten:

     […] it does bring to memory pictures of that great period when Rome ruled the world, when triumphant processions and triumphators marched down that narrow way that led to the mighty Rome.

   • 1940 July 6, Minneapolis Star Journal, volume LXII, number 223, Minneapolis, Minn., page 2:

     The fuehrer’s return led to newspaper eulogies of Hitler as “a conquering general and triumphator.” In ancient Rome a “triumphator” was a conqueror who was granted a triumphal reception such as was accorded Julius Caesar when he returned from campaigns against the Germanic tribes.

   • 2011, Martin Jehne, “The rise of the consular as a social type in the third and second centuries bc”, in Hans Beck, Antonio Duplá, Martin Jehne, Francisco Pina Polo, editors, Consuls and Res Publica: Holding High Office in the Roman Republic, Cambridge University Press, part III (Symbols, Models, Self-Representation), page 225:

     According to Plutarch, triumphators used to invite the consuls officially to their triumphal feasts and uninvited them unofficially, for a consul, if he turned up, had to get the place of honour at the table, which would normally be reserved for the triumphator on his great day.

   • 2019, Dexter Hoyos, “Rome Before Empire: Hegemony Over Italy”, in Rome Victorious: The Irresistible Rise of the Roman Empire, London, New York, N.Y.: I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 16:

     Leading patrician and plebeian families came to be informally called nobiles (‘notables’), or collectively the nobilitas, their ancestry adorned by consuls, dictators and triumphators.

Latin

Etymology

From triumphō (“triumph (over)”) +‎ -tor (“-er”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tri.umˈpʰaː.tor/, [t̪riʊmˈpʰäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tri.umˈfa.tor/, [t̪riumˈfäːt̪or]

Noun

triumphātor m (genitive triumphātōris); third declension

1. A person who triumphs, or who celebrates a triumph

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	triumphātor	triumphātōrēs
Genitive	triumphātōris	triumphātōrum
Dative	triumphātōrī	triumphātōribus
Accusative	triumphātōrem	triumphātōrēs
Ablative	triumphātōre	triumphātōribus
Vocative	triumphātor	triumphātōrēs

Descendants

• Catalan: triomfador
• French: triomphateur
• Galician: triunfador
• Italian: trionfatore
• Portuguese: triunfador
• Romanian: triumfător
• Spanish: triunfador
• → English: triumphator
• → Middle English: tryumphatour

Verb

triumphātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of triumphō

References

• “triumphator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• triumphator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.