English → Latin
“proud” in Latin
superbusproud, rude, supercilious, arrogant, haughty, uncivil, insolent, discourteous; proud, superior, superb, excellent, distifastōsusfull ofarrogōto claim as one's own, arrogate to oneself, assume; to assign, attribute; to confer upon or procure for someonecontumāxinsolent, obstinate, stiff-necked, defiant; who refuses to appear in a court of law, in disobedience of a summons; unyiefastīdiōsussqueamish; nauseating; disdainful, scornfulmagnificusgreat, noble, distinguished, eminent, august; splendid, rich, fine, costly, sumptuous, magnificentsplendidussplendid, bright, glittering; distinguished, noble, illustrious
The English word proud itself goes back to Latin prōde.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
proud
Haughty, 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)(In surgery), proud flesh, caro fungosa (Plin.); caro supercrescens (Cels., 5, 22).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for proud?
- The usual Latin words for “proud” are superbus, fastōsus, arrogō; also contumāx, fastīdiōsus, magnificus. 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.