vanagloria

See also: vanagloriá

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.naˈɡlɔ.rja/
• Rhymes: -ɔrja
• Hyphenation: va‧na‧glò‧ria

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin vāna glōria, from Latin vāna (“empty, groundless, boastful”) + glōria (“fame, ambition, boasting”). By surface analysis, vana (“vain”) +‎ gloria (“glory”). Cognate with English vainglory, Portuguese vanglória and Spanish vanagloria.

Noun

vanagloria f (plural vanaglorie)

1. boastfulness, vainglory

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

vanagloria

1. inflection of vanagloriarsi:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• ragliavano

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /banaˈɡloɾja/ [ba.naˈɣ̞lo.ɾja]
• Rhymes: -oɾja
• Syllabification: va‧na‧glo‧ria

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin vāna glōria, from Latin vāna (“empty, groundless, boastful”) + glōria (“fame, ambition, boasting”). By surface analysis, vana (“vain; arrogant”) +‎ gloria (“glory”). Cognate with English vainglory, Portuguese vanglória and Italian vanagloria.

Noun

vanagloria f (plural vanaglorias)

1. vainglory
2. boastfulness

   Synonym: jactancia

Derived terms

• vanagloriar

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

vanagloria

1. only used in se vanagloria, third-person singular present indicative of vanagloriarse
2. only used in te ... vanagloria, syntactic variant of vanaglóriate, second-person singular imperative of vanagloriarse

Further reading

• “vanagloria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10