[troh-fee] 
| 1. | anything taken in war, hunting, competition, etc., esp. when preserved as a memento; spoil, prize, or award. |
| 2. | anything serving as a token or evidence of victory, valor, skill, etc. |
| 3. | a carving, painting, or other representation of objects associated with or symbolic of victory or achievement. |
| 4. | any memento or memorial. |
| 5. | a memorial erected by certain ancient peoples, esp. the Greeks and Romans, in commemoration of a victory in war and consisting of arms or other spoils taken from the enemy and hung upon a tree, pillar, or the like. |
) a turning (akin to trépein to turn) + -aios adj. suffix. See trope 
| tro·phy (trō'fē) n. pl. tro·phies
[French trophée, from Old French trophee, from Latin trophaeum, monument to victory, variant of tropaeum, from Greek tropaion, from neuter of tropaios, of defeat, from tropē, a turning, rout; see trep- in Indo-European roots.] |
