superbia

Borrowed from Latin superbia.

• IPA^(key): /suˈpɛr.bja/
• Rhymes: -ɛrbja
• Hyphenation: su‧pèr‧bia

superbia f (plural superbie)

1. 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)

From superbus (“haughty, proud”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /suˈper.bi.a/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /suˈper.bi.a/,

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.”

     “ 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.)

2. conceit, vanity
3. rudeness, discourtesy

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

First-declension noun.

• superbē
• superbiō
• superbiter
• superbus

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

• “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
    

Borrowed from Latin superbia.

superbia f (plural superbias)

1. (obsolete) haughtiness, arrogance

• “superbia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28