Victorious means having won. The victorious side, emerge victorious, victorious army.
It is formal and belongs to armies, elections and finals rather than to card games. Emerge victorious is the fixed phrase. It describes the winner rather than the winning: a victorious team, a victorious campaign. Note victory, victor; and that the word displaced the Old English sigefaest, which came from sige, victory — a word that survives now only in old names.
1adjectivevictoriousHaving won.
“The victorious army marched back into the city to cheering crowds.”
synonyms: triumphant, winning
victorious is a quality of having won.
Latin victoriosus comes from victoria, from victor, a conqueror, from vincere, to conquer. Convince, evict and invincible come from the same conquering.
Proto-Indo-European
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Latin
victōriōsus
English, today
victorious
Built from
Borrowed from Latin victōriōsus, from victōria (“victory”), from victor (“conqueror”). Displaced native siġefæst.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA