superbia

See also: supèrbia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin superbia.

Noun

superbia f (plural superbie)

  1. pride, haughtiness, pomposity

Latin

Etymology

From superbus (haughty, proud).

Pronunciation

Noun

superbia f (genitive superbiae); first declension

  1. pride, haughtiness, arrogance, snobbishness, insolence, lawlessness, wantonness
    Synonyms: spīritus, arrogantia
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.529:
      “Nōn ea vīs animō nec tanta superbia victīs.”
      “[We do] not [have] this violence in mind, nor [is] such arrogance even [appropriate] for the defeated.”
      (Ilioneus assures Queen Dido that the Trojans have not come to raid Carthage.)
  2. conceit, vanity
  3. rudeness, discourtesy

Usage notes

While superbia generally refers to pride in a negative sense, it can also mean it in the good sense.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative superbia superbiae
Genitive superbiae superbiārum
Dative superbiae superbiīs
Accusative superbiam superbiās
Ablative superbiā superbiīs
Vocative superbia superbiae

Descendants

  • French: superbe
  • Italian: superbia
  • Portuguese: soberba
  • Spanish: soberbia

References

  • superbia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • superbia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • superbia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • superbia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be puffed up with pride: insolentia, superbia inflatum esse

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin superbia.

Noun

superbia f (plural superbias)

  1. (obsolete) haughtiness, arrogance

Further reading

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