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From Old Latin triumpus, via Etruscan *𐌈𐌓𐌉𐌀𐌌𐌐𐌄 (*θriampe), ultimately from Ancient Greek θρίαμβος (thríambos, “thriambos, a hymn to Dionysus”).[1]

triumphus m (genitive triumphī); second declension

  1. a hymn in honor of Bacchus (translating Greek θρίαμβος)
  2. (vocative, addressing Thriambus) triumpe (a ritual exclamation of the Arval Brothers)
  3. the Roman Triumph (a ceremonial procession in celebration of a military victory)
    • 55 BCE, Cicero, In Pisonem 24:
      At audistis, patres conscripti, philosophi vocem: negavit se triumphi cupidum umquam fuisse.
      But Conscript Fathers, you heard the voice of the philosopher: he denied that he has ever had the desire for a triumph.
    • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 14.17.97:
      quid? non et Caesar dictator triumphi sui cena vini Falerni amphoras, Chii cados in convivia distribuit?
      What? Did not Caesar the dictator distribute amphoras of Falernian wine at the feast at his triumph, and jars of Chian at the banquet?
  4. triumph, celebration (any celebration of victory)
    • c. 37 CE – 41 CE, Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 9.6:
      Ille Graeciae servator et vindex Persarum orientisque domitor, cui modo tam insignem triumphum Fortuna de hoste detulerat
      That saviour of Greece and victor over the Persians, vanquisher of the Orient, whom Fortune had just conferred so signal a triumph over his foe

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative triumphus triumphī
Genitive triumphī triumphōrum
Dative triumphō triumphīs
Accusative triumphum triumphōs
Ablative triumphō triumphīs
Vocative triumphe triumphī
  1. ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “triumpe”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 707