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superbia

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See also: supèrbia

Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin superbia.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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superbia f (plural superbie)

  1. pride, haughtiness, pomposity
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Latin

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Etymology

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From superbus (haughty, proud).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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

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

Declension

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative superbia superbiae
genitive superbiae superbiārum
dative superbiae superbiīs
accusative superbiam superbiās
ablative superbiā superbiīs
vocative superbia superbiae
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Descendants

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

References

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  • 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be puffed up with pride: insolentia, superbia inflatum esse

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin superbia.

Noun

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superbia f (plural superbias)

  1. (obsolete) haughtiness, arrogance
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Further reading

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