superbiaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [sʊˈpɛr.bi.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [suˈpɛr.bi.a]

名詞

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

使用する際の注意点

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

語形変化

First-declension noun.

関連する語

• superbē
• superbiō
• superbiter
• superbus

派生した語

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

参照

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