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^[1]:

     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 (eo), 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)
• 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
• 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: please add this translation if you can

Latin

Etymology

From con- +‎ queror.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.kʷe.ror/, [ˈkɔŋkʷɛrɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.kwe.ror/, [ˈkɔŋkweror]

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		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		conquerī	conquestum esse	conquestūrum esse	—	—	—
participles		conquerēns	conquestus	conquestūrus	—	—	conquerendus, conquerundus
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^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to expostulate with a person about a thing: conqueri, expostulare cum aliquo de aliqua re