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单词 tropaeum
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tropaeumtropeumn.

Brit. /trə(ʊ)ˈpiːəm/, U.S. /troʊˈpiəm/
Forms:

α. 1500s 1800s– tropheum, 1600s 1800s– tropaeum, 1600s– trophaeum, 1900s– tropeum.

β. 1800s– tropaeon, 1800s– trophaeon, 1800s– trophaion, 1900s– tropaion.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin tropaeum; Greek τρόπαιον.
Etymology: < (i) classical Latin tropaeum (in post-classical Latin also trophaeum) and (ii) (in β. forms) its etymon ancient Greek τρόπαιον (see trophy n.).The β. forms trophaeon, trophaion are influenced by the forms of the Latin noun.
= trophy n. 2.
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society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun] > structure or erection > monument of victory
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1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes sig. F.iii In olde tyme they that had gotten ye victorie in batel were wonte to erecte and set vp some great stone, pyller or other thyng for a sygne of victorie, which marke they called Trophæum.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xvii. 117 This last tryumphe of laure tre vas callit tropheum, quhilk singnifeis ane ioyful victoree.
1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 270 They..enacted in their Chapter house, that..Saint Cuthbertes feast (as a Tropheum of their victorie) should be holden double, bothe in their Churche and Kitchin.
1607 A. Willet Loidoromastix xi. 151 He calleth the death and crosse of Christ, the diuels trophæum, because hee supposed to haue vanquished Christ by putting him to death.
1692 O. Walker Greek & Rom. Hist. i. vi. 69 His carrying a Tropæum upon his Shoulders, intimates the Opima Spolia gain'd by Romulus over Acron.
1847 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art §200.165 Below, a tropæon is erected by Roman legionaries and auxiliaries.
1871 J. Conington & H. Nettleship tr. Virgil Opera III. 294/1 The ‘tropaeum’ was properly a trunk of wood hung with the arms of the slaughtered man.
1901 Athenæum 5 Jan. 24/2 [The] massive foundations..are too deep and strong for anything but a very large tower of trophæum.
1964 A. A. DeMarco Tomb of St Peter 208 The tropaion mentioned by Gaius about the year 200, has been found. But this tropaion, contrary to Gaius' own opinion, was not located above the real tomb of St. Peter.
1973 O. Maenchen-Helfen World of Huns x. 448 Whether the famous tropaeum at Adamclisi was erected on the battlefield is not as certain as it has been assumed.
1997 S. L. Tuck Creating Rom. Imperial Identity & Authority (Univ. Michigan Doctoral Diss.) iii. 138 Such a use for a lighthouse was anticipated by Gaius..whose monument acted as both a tropeum and an operating lighthouse.
2010 A. T. Fear in tr. Orosius Hist. against Pagans vi. 313 Drusus erected a tropaeum..in their territory.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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