conquerour

English

Noun

conquerour (plural conquerours)

1. Obsolete form of conqueror.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• conqueroure, conquerowre, conquerur, conquerrour
• conqwerour (East Anglia); conquirour (Northern)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French conquereor; equivalent to conqueren (“to conquer”) +‎ -our (agent suffix). First attested in c. 1330.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkunkwəˈruːr/, /ˈkunkwərur/

Noun

conquerour (plural conquerours)

1. A conqueror (individual who subjugates land)
   • c. 1300, “[Prologue]”, in Curſoꝛ Mundı (Trinity College MS. R. 3.8), Staffordshire, published c. 1400, folio 1, recto; republished at Cambridge: Trinity College, 23 June 2017:

     Men ȝernen ıeſtes foꝛ to here / And romaūce rede in dyu͛ſe manere / Of alıſaunder þe conqueroure / Of Iulıus ceſar þe emperoure

     People desire epics to hear / and romances read in various manners / Of Alexander the conqueror, / Of Julius Caesar the emperor […]

2. A victor (individual who wins)

Descendants

• English: conqueror
• Middle Scots: conquerour, conqueriour, concreour
• →? Middle Welsh: cwncwerwr, concwerwr
  • Welsh: concwerwr

References

• “conquerǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.