conqueror

See also: Conqueror

English

Alternative forms

• conquerour, conquerer (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English conquerour, from Old French conquereor, from conquerre. By surface analysis, conquer +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑŋˌkɚ.ɚ/, /ˈkɔnˌkɚ.ɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒŋˌkə.ɹə/
• Hyphenation: con‧quer‧or

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Noun

conqueror (plural conquerors)

1. Someone who conquers.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 196:

     They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force - nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

   • 2018 November 18, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 1 Croatia”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Croatia, England's World Cup semi-final conquerors in Moscow in July, looked set to inflict their curse once more and relegate Gareth Southgate's side from the elite group when Andrej Kramaric's twisting finish put them ahead via a deflection off Eric Dier after 57 minutes.

Synonyms

• vanquisher
• victor
• subjugator

Hyponyms

• (female conqueror): conqueress

Derived terms

• John the Conqueror root

Translations

someone who conquers

Afrikaans: veroweraar Arabic: غَازٍ m (ḡāzin) Armenian: նվաճող (hy) (nvačoġ) Azerbaijani: fateh Belarusian: заваёўнік m (zavajóŭnik), заваёўніца f (zavajóŭnica) Bulgarian: завоева́тел (bg) m (zavoevátel) Catalan: conqueridor m Chinese: Mandarin: 佔領者 / 占领者 (zh) (zhànlǐngzhě), 征服者 (zh) (zhēngfúzhě) Czech: dobyvatel (cs) m Dutch: overwinnaar (nl) m, veroveraar (nl) m Esperanto: konkeranto, konkerinto Extremaduran: conquistaol Finnish: valloittaja (fi) French: conquérant (fr) m, conquérante (fr) f Friulian: concuistadôr m Galician: conqueridor m, conqueredor m German: Eroberer (de) m, Erobererin f, Bezwinger (de) m, Bezwingerin (de) f Greek: κατακτητής (el) m (kataktitís), κατακτήτρια (el) f (kataktítria) Hindi: विजेता (hi) m (vijetā) Hungarian: hódító (hu) Indonesian: pemenang (id) Italian: conquistatore (it) m Japanese: 征服者 (せいふくしゃ, seifukusha) Korean: 정복자 (ko) (jeongbokja) Latin: dēbellātor m, victor (la) m, superātor m Latvian: uzvarētājs m, iekarotājs m Maori: kairaupatu Middle English: conquerour Norman: contchérant m Norwegian: Bokmål: erobrer m Nynorsk: erobrar m Polish: zdobywca (pl) m Portuguese: conquistador (pt) m Russian: завоева́тель (ru) m (zavojevátelʹ), завоева́тельница (ru) f (zavojevátelʹnica), покори́тель (ru) m (pokorítelʹ), покори́тельница (ru) f (pokorítelʹnica) Sanskrit: दानु (sa) m (dānu) Serbo-Croatian: Roman: osvajač (sh) m, zavojevač (sh) m, savlađivač m Spanish: conquistador (es) m Swedish: erövrare (sv) c Turkish: fatih (tr) Ukrainian: завойо́вник m (zavojóvnyk), завойо́вниця f (zavojóvnycja)

Latin

Etymology

From con- +‎ queror.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔŋ.kʷɛ.rɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔŋ.kʷe.ror]

Verb

conqueror (present infinitive conquerī, perfect active conquestus sum); third conjugation, deponent

1. to complain, bewail, lament, deplore

   Synonyms: dēplōrō, ingemīscō, ingemō, lūgeō, gemō, plangō, fremō, plōrō, queror, fleō

Conjugation

   Conjugation of conqueror (third conjugation, deponent)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	conqueror		conquereris, conquerere		conqueritur		conquerimur		conqueriminī		conqueruntur
	imperfect	conquerēbar		conquerēbāris, conquerēbāre		conquerēbātur		conquerēbāmur		conquerēbāminī		conquerēbantur
	future	conquerar		conquerēris, conquerēre		conquerētur		conquerēmur		conquerēminī		conquerentur
	perfect	conquestus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	conquestus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	conquestus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	conquerar		conquerāris, conquerāre		conquerātur		conquerāmur		conquerāminī		conquerantur
	imperfect	conquererer		conquererēris, conquererēre		conquererētur		conquererēmur		conquererēminī		conquererentur
	perfect	conquestus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	conquestus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		conquerere		—		—		conqueriminī		—
	future	—		conqueritor		conqueritor		—		—		conqueruntor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		conquerī			—			conquerēns			—
future		conquestūrum esse			—			conquestūrus			conquerendus, conquerundus
perfect		conquestum esse			—			conquestus			—
future perfect		conquestum fore			—			—			—
perfect potential		conquestūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		conquerendī		conquerendō		conquerendum		conquerendō		conquestum		conquestū

References

• “conqueror”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “conqueror”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “conqueror”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to expostulate with a person about a thing: conqueri, expostulare cum aliquo de aliqua re