νικηφόρος

νῑ́κη (nī́kē, “victory”) +‎ -φόρος (-phóros).

νῑκηφόρος • (nīkēphóros) m or f (neuter νῑκηφόρον); second declension

1. bringing victory
2. victorious
3. Uppercase (Νῑκηφόρος), the name of a Roman Emperor, Nikephoros

• “νικηφόρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Franco Montanari et al. (2015) Madeleine Goh and Chad Schroeder, editors, The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 1399
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • conquering idem, page 161.
  • triumphal idem, page 896.
  • triumphant idem, page 896.
  • victorious idem, page 951.

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek νῑκηφόρος (nīkēphóros), equivalent to νίκη (níki, “victory”) +‎ -φόρος (-fóros).

νικηφόρος • (nikifóros) m (feminine νικηφόρος or νικηφόρα, neuter νικηφόρο)

1. victorious

• νικηφόρος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language