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A trophy is a reward for a specific achievement, and serves as recognition or evidence of merit. Trophies are most often awarded for sporting events, from youth sports to professional level athletics. In many sports medals (or, in North America, rings) are often given out either instead of or along with trophies. Originally the word trophy, derived from the Greek ''tropaion'', referred to arms, standards, other property, or human captives and body parts (e.g., headhunting) captured in battle. These war trophies commemorated the military victories of a state, army or individual combatant. In modern warfare trophy taking is discouraged, but this sense of the word is reflected in hunting trophies and human trophy collecting by serial killers. A slang term for an individual or team's collection of trophies is silverware. == Etymology == Trophies have marked victories since ancient times. The word ''trophy'' coined in English in 1550, was derived from the French ''trophée'' in 1513, "a prize of war", from Old French ''trophee'', from Latin ''trophaeum'', monument to victory, variant of ''tropaeum'', which in turn is the latinisation of the Greek τρόπαιον (''tropaion''), the neuter of τροπαῖος (''tropaios''), "of defeat" or "for defeat", but generally "of a turning" or "of a change", from τροπή (''tropē''), "a turn, a change" and that from the verb τρέπω (''trepo''), "to turn, to alter".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=trophy )〕 In ancient Greece, trophies were made on the battlefields of victorious battles, from captured arms and standards, and were hung upon a tree or a large stake made to resemble a warrior. Often, these ancient trophies were inscribed with a story of the battle and were dedicated to various gods. Trophies made about naval victories sometimes consisted of entire ships (or what remained of them) laid out on the beach. To destroy a trophy was considered a sacrilege.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=trophy )〕 The ancient Romans kept their trophies closer to home. The Romans built magnificent trophies in Rome, including columns and arches atop a foundation. Most of the stone trophies that once adorned huge stone memorials in Rome have been long since stolen.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Trophy )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「trophy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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