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.
PROUD Copy link • PROUDHaughty, superbus; fastosus; arrogans [SYN. in ARROGANT]: contumax (stiff-necked; unwilling to bend to the will of a superior): tumens inani superbia: fastidiosus (contemptuous): magnificus: splendidus (of things: in this sense superbus is only poetical): to be proud, sublati esse animi: magnos gerere spiritus: inani superbia tumere; of anything, superbire aliqua re: aliqua re inflatum esse, tumere, elatum esse (to be puffed up by anything): to grow or become proud, magnos spiritus or magnam arrogantiam sibi sumere: to be intolerably proud, haud tolerandam sibi sumere arrogantiam: to make anybody proud, aliquem superbum facere: alicui spiritus afferre (both of things): to make anybody intolerably proud, inflare alicujus animum ad intolerabilem superbiam (Liv., 45, 31). (In surgery), proud flesh, caro fungosa (Plin.); caro supercrescens (Cels., 5, 22).