How to spell victorious

hear itvic·to·ri·ous/vɪk'toʊriəs/adjectiveSchwa and roots

What it means: Having won a game, contest, or battle.

In a sentence: The team felt happy and victorious after winning the big game.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as victorius or victoreous.

Same family: victory, victoriousness, victoriously, victor. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Victorious” comes from the Latin word “victoria,” meaning “victory,” which itself comes from “vincere,” meaning “to conquer” or “to win.” The suffix “-ous” turns it into an adjective, so being victorious literally means being “full of victory.”

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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