English → Latin
“haughtiness” in Latin
superbiapride, haughtiness, arrogance, snobbishness, insolence, lawlessness, wantonness; conceit, vanity; rudeness, discourtesyiactātiōshaking, agitationfastīdiumloathing, disgust, disdain; squeamishness; fastidiousnessfastusarrogance, pride, haughtiness; scornful contempt or disdain of others; fastidiousness, primnessvānitāsemptiness, nothingness; falsity, falsehood, deception, untruth, untrustworthiness, fickleness; vanity, vaingloryarrogantiaAn assuming, presumption; arrogance, conceitedness.; Pride, haughtiness, insolence.; Obstinacy, stubbornness.īnsolēnsunusual; contrary to custom or one’s own custom; arrogant, haughty, insolent
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
haughtiness
superbia or superbia inanis (vain arrogance): jactatio (boasting): fastidium (disgust, pride, joined with contemptuous disregard of others): fastus (pride, arising from an over-valuing of one’s self, so far as it is shown by looks and deportment, and by contempt and indifference toward others, especially among the female sex; a species of the common superbia): vanitas (vain boasting): animi sublimes (Ov., Met., 4, 421): arrogantia (arrogance; the will to exact from another an acknowledgement of one’s claims, merits, etc.): superbia (general term, pride): insolentia (insolence). ☞ Tumor occurs first in Justinus, 11, 11, 12, and in poets of the Silver Age.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for haughtiness?
- The usual Latin words for “haughtiness” are superbia, iactātiō, fastīdium; also fastus, vānitās, arrogantia. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.