ὑπερήφανος

• ὑπερᾱ́φανος (huperā́phanos) — Doric, Aeolic

Traditionally derived from ὑπερφανής (huperphanḗs, “appearing over; showing oneself above others”), or directly from ῠ̔πέρ (hupér, “over, above”) +‎ φᾱνός (phānós, “appearing, shining, bright, resplendent”), in both cases, with epenthetic vowel -η- (-ē-) inserted, perhaps on the model of ὑπερήνωρ (huperḗnōr, “arrogant”). However, Beekes is skeptical, analyzing the word as an atomic root form ὑπερήφ (huperḗph) (despite claiming that -η- (-ē-) is compositional) + a suffix -ανος (-anos), and leaves the origin open.^[1]

ὑπερήφανος • (huperḗphanos) m or f (neuter ὑπερήφανον); second declension (Attic, Ionic, Koine)

1. arrogant, boastful, blustering, conceited, overweening, proud, vain, vainglorious
2. contemptuous, disdainful, haughty, scornful, supercilious
3. (rarely, in a good sense) magnificent, splendid

• ὑπερηφᾱνίᾰ (huperēphānía, “arrogance, boastfulness, pride, vainglory”)
• ὑπερφαίνομαι (huperphaínomai, “to show oneself over or above; to be superior”)

• Greek: υπερήφανος (yperífanos, “arrogant, proud”), περήφανος (perífanos)

• “ὑπερήφανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὑπερήφανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὑπερήφανος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G5244 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • arrogant idem, page 41.
  • blustering idem, page 86.
  • boastful idem, page 87.
  • cold idem, page 142.
  • conceited idem, page 154.
  • contemptuous idem, page 167.
  • disdainful idem, page 232.
  • distant idem, page 240.
  • flaunting idem, page 326.
  • frigid idem, page 346.
  • haughty idem, page 388.
  • highest idem, page 400.
  • imperious idem, page 420.
  • inflated idem, page 438.
  • lofty idem, page 497.
  • ostentatious idem, page 580.
  • overbearing idem, page 585.
  • overweening idem, page 587.
  • patronising idem, page 599.
  • proud idem, page 653.
  • scornful idem, page 741.
  • supercilious idem, page 838.
  • swelling idem, page 848.
  • vain idem, page 942.
  • vainglorious idem, page 942.