proud
English
/pɹaʊd/
adj
Definitions
- Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.
- Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth.
- (chiefly) Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious.
- Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
- (Of things) standing upwards as in the manner of a proud person; stately or majestic.
- stand Standing out or raised; swollen.
- (obsolete) Brave, valiant; gallant.
- (obsolete) Excited by sexual desire; specifically of a female animal: in heat.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English proud inherited from Old English prūd derived from Old French prod derived from Latin *prōdis.
Origin
Latin
*prōdis
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- hearted English
- house English
- house-proud English
- houseproud English
- misproud English
- overproud English
- proud-hearted English
- proud-heartedly English
- proud-heartedness English
- proudful English
- proudfully English
- proudfulness English
- proudhearted English
- proudheartedly English
- proudheartedness English
- proudish English
- proudling English
- proudly English
- proudness English
- proudsome English
- prowess English
- prowessed English
- purse English
- purse-proud English
- unproud English
- unproudly English
- *prōdis Latin
- prosum Latin
- prōde Latin
- sum Latin
- preusement French
- preux French
- prūd Old English
- misproud Middle English
- proud Middle English
- proude-herted Middle English
- proudful Middle English
- proudnes Middle English
- proutly Middle English
- prowesse Middle English
- bród Irish
- prúðleikr Old Norse
- prúðr Old Norse
- prud Danish
- prod Old French
- prou Catalan, Valencian
- prúðmenni Icelandic
- prúður Icelandic
- pro Old Occitan
- prodo Sranan Tongo