English → Latin
“pride” in Latin
superbiapride, haughtiness, arrogance, snobbishness, insolence, lawlessness, wantonness; conceit, vanity; rudeness, discourtesyīnsolēnsunusual; contrary to custom or one’s own custom; arrogant, haughty, insolentfastīdiumloathing, disgust, disdain; squeamishness; fastidiousnessspīritusair, breath, breathing; light breeze; spirit, ghosttumeōto be swollen, turgid, distended, puffed out or inflated, to swell; to be excited or violent, ready to burst forth; to btollōto raise, lift up, elevate; to remove, take away, steal, rob; to destroy, eliminate, annulfastusarrogance, pride, haughtiness; scornful contempt or disdain of others; fastidiousness, primnessglōriaglory, renown, fame, honorPhaedrusPhaedrus (an Athenian aristocrat, friend of Socrates); Phaedrus (a Latin fabulist)
The English word pride itself goes back to Latin lamprēda.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
pride
Haughtiness, superbia (opposed to humility and modesty, haughty sense of superiority): insolentia (active and offensive insolence): fastidium: spiritus (a middle word, in good or bad sense): animus inflatus, tumens, sublatus: fastus (especially in poets, and prose of Silver Age). To charge anybody with pride, superbiae tribuere aliquid alicui (Nep.): to bring down anybody’s pride, superbiam alicujus retundere (Phaedrus, 4, 22, 21): to let go pride, superbiam ponere (Hor.); abjicere (Plaut.); spiritus remittere (Caes.).
That on which one prides one’s self, gloria. The husband is the pride of his wife, marito superbire potest conjux.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for pride?
- The usual Latin words for “pride” are superbia, īnsolēns, fastīdium; also spīritus, tumeō, tollō. 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.