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superba

superba is a Latin form of superbus, meaning “proud, haughty, arrogant; splendid”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 85 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro M. Marcello 9: … , sapienter factum, in iracundia praesertim quae est inimica consilio, et in victoria quae natura insolens et superba est, audimus aut legimus, quo studio incendimur, non modo in gestis rebus sed etiam in fictis ut eos saepe qu …

Martial, Epigrammata 8.44.10: Superba densis arca palleat nummis,

All forms of superbus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.