'Trophy' is Greek for 'the turning point' — a monument where the enemy turned and fled.
A cup, shield, or other decorative object awarded as a prize for victory or success in a competition.
From French 'trophée,' from Latin 'trophaeum,' from Greek 'tropaion' (a monument of an enemy's defeat), from 'tropē' (a rout, a turning), from 'trepein' (to turn). In ancient Greece, when an enemy army turned and fled, the victors would erect a 'tropaion' on the battlefield at the exact spot where the enemy turned — hanging captured armor and weapons on a wooden frame as a monument to the moment of rout. The word literally means