proud Copy link Outline 1. sŭperbus (haughty, arrogant)2. arrŏgans • proud: 1. sŭperbus (haughty, arrogant): Cic.: Caes. Fig., in good sense: a people p. (proudly great) in war, populus bello s., Virg. Aen., 1, 21: Hor. (N.B.--Superbus is usu. stronger than the Eng., and conveys a worse sense: cf. epith. Tarquinius Superbus, nearly = tyrannical.) 2. arrŏgans: v. arrogant. (Fastōsus, scornful, disdainful, rare.) To be p.: (1). sŭperbio, 4 (the thing of which one is proud in abl.): to be p. of the name of an ancestor, nomine avi s., Ov. M. 11, 218: Prop.: also absol., Cic. Ac. 2, 29, 94 (to be high and mighty, disdainful). (2). expr. by effĕro, 3, irr., with pron. refl. (to be elated): to be overweeningly p. (elated), insolenter se ef., Cic. Tusc. 4, 17, 39: v. to elate; pride oneself. (3). jacto, 1 (with pron. ref.): v. to pride oneself.