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trofeu
trophy /troˈfe.u/
noun#4839 most common
Also: cup (award), prize
Example sentences
Ea câștigă un trofeu.
She wins a trophy.
Echipa noastră a câștigat trofeul.
Our team won the trophy.
Trofeul este pe raftul din sufragerie.
The trophy is on the shelf in the living room.
După finală, jucătorii au ridicat trofeul deasupra capului.
After the final, the players lifted the trophy above their heads.
Colecția lui de trofee sportive umple un dulap întreg.
His collection of sports trophies fills an entire cabinet.
Deși pierduseră toate meciurile anterioare, echipa a reușit, în cele din urmă, să ridice mult-râvnitul trofeu.
Although they had lost all their previous matches, the team finally managed to lift the much-coveted trophy.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | trofeul | trofeele |
| Genitive | trofeului | trofeelor |
| Accusative | trofeul | trofeele |
| Vocative | trofeule | trofeelor |
Word family
Etymology
Trofeu entered Romanian from French trophée, itself from Latin tropaeum. The Latin word came from Greek tropaion, a monument built on the spot where an enemy army turned and fled in battle. The Greek root trope means turning, so a trophy was originally a marker of the turning point of a fight, not the prize itself.
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