conqueror
/ˈkɒŋkəə/KAHNG-kur-ur
UK form converted from the US by rule · unchecked/ˈkɑŋkɚɚ/KAHNG-kur-ur
Meaningone who conquers
Common meaning: a person who conquers
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- conwith, together; thoroughly
- querto seek, askLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1501 · scan
- oragent ending: the doer, or the device that does it
‘with, together’ + ‘to seek, ask’ → conqueror
Journey through time
- Latinquaerō, quaesīvī, quaesītum‘to seek, ask’
- Frenchconguerre
- Middle Englishconquerensource
- Englishconquer‘to defeat and take over’
- Englishformed in English from conquerconqueror‘a person who conquers’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Formed in English from conquer + -or.
Dictionary: Skeat (1898), CONQUER, p.130 · scan
Roots
- quaerō, quaesīvī, quaesītum Latin “to seek, ask”
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