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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin superbia.
Noun
superbia f (plural superbie)
- pride, haughtiness, pomposity
c. 1500, Leonardo da Vinci, “Allegorie ed emblemi”, in G. Fumagalli, editor, Leonardo Prosatore, scelta di scritti Vinciani, Milan: Albrighi, published 1915, →OCLC, page 307:Il falcone, per la sua alterigia e superbia, vole signioreggiare e sopraffare tutti li altri uccelli che son di rapina, e sen desidera essere solo; e spesse volte s’è veduto il falcone assaltare l’aquila, regina delli uccelli.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Latin
Etymology
From superbus (“haughty, proud”).
Pronunciation
Noun
superbia f (genitive superbiae); first declension
- 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.”
- “ not this violence in mind, nor such arrogance even for the defeated.”
(Ilioneus assures Queen Dido that the Trojans have not come to raid Carthage.)
- conceit, vanity
- 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.
Descendants
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)
- (obsolete) haughtiness, arrogance
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