trophy

• n. 賞品；トロフィー；記念品
• vt.トロフィーで飾る
• adj.ステータスを示す；名誉ある
• n. （トロフィー）人名；（仏語）トロフィー

ラテン語のtrophaeumから、勝利の印、記念碑、記念品、ギリシャ語のtropeから、敗走、敗北、戦争のターン、PIE*trepから、ターン、PIE*terから、ターン、tropeと語源は同じ。

trophy

trophy: [16] A trophy is etymologically something awarded to commemorate the enemy’s ‘turning round’ and running away. The word comes via French trophée and Latin trophaeum from Greek trópaion ‘monument to the enemy’s defeat’. This was a noun use of the adjective tropaíos ‘of turning’, a derivative of tropé ‘turning’, hence ‘turning back the enemy’ (source also of English tropic).
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trophy (n.)

1510s, "a spoil or prize of war," from Middle French trophée (15c.) from Latin trophaeum "a sign of victory, monument," originally tropaeum, from Greek tropaion "monument of an enemy's defeat," noun use of neuter of adjective tropaios "of defeat, causing a rout," from trope "a rout," originally "a turning" (of the enemy); see trope. In ancient Greece, spoils or arms taken in battle and set up on the field and dedicated to a god. Figurative extension to any token or memorial of victory is first recorded 1560s. As "a symbolic representation of a classical trophy" from 1630s. Trophy wife attested by 1984.

1. The silver trophy was donated by a Leicester businessman.

銀製トロフィーはレスターの商人から寄贈された。

2.He had heard that the trophy had been sold.

トロフィーが売られたと聞いた。

3.He finished third in the Tote Gold Trophy .

彼はトットゴールドグランプリで3位を獲得した。

4.His name was inscribed on the trophy .

彼の名前はトロフィーに刻まれている。

5.The cup is a cherished trophy of the company.

そのトロフィーは同社が大切にしている賞品だ。