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tropæa

tropæa is the plural of tropæum.

Meaning of tropæum

Noun

tropæum (plural tropæa)

  1. (historical) A monument erected (originally on the field of battle) by the prevailing army (without Senatical grant — contrast triumph) to commemorate victory in war, featuring spoils taken from the enemy (especially the personal arms of the vanquished general), and dedicated to an appropriate god (such as Mars).

Questions about tropæa

What is tropæa the plural of?
Tropæa is the plural of tropæum.

Words near tropæa in the dictionary

  1. troptometers
  2. tropyl
  3. tropylidene
  4. tropylium
  5. tropyliums
  6. tropæa
  7. Tropæan
  8. tropæolin
  9. Tropæolum
  10. tropæum
  11. TROs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tropæa (page history and authors); tropæum (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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