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): [sʊˈpɛr.bi.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [suˈpɛr.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.”

     “[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

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^[1], 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 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024