superbus

From super- + bus.

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superbus (plural superbuses)

1. A bus which is larger than or considered superior to ordinary buses.

• super-sub, supersub

Inherited from Proto-Italic *superiðos; equivalent to super (“above”) + -idus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sʊˈpɛr.bʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [suˈpɛr.bus]

superbus (feminine superba, neuter superbum, comparative superbior, superlative superbissimus, adverb superbē or superbiter); first/second-declension adjective

1. (in a bad sense) proud, rude, supercilious, arrogant, haughty, uncivil, insolent, discourteous

   Synonyms: ferōx, īnsolēns, arrogāns, impudēns

   Antonym: pudēns

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.540–541:

     “Quis mē autem, fac velle, sinet, ratibusve superbīs / invīsam accipiet? [...].”

     “Moreover, who will let me [rejoin the Trojans], supposing I want it? Or if I arrive at [their] haughty ships will I [even] be received? [...].”

2. (in a good sense) proud, superior, superb, excellent, distinguished; splendid, magnificent

First/second-declension adjective.

• arrogans
• insolens
• fastidiosus
• vanus
• elatus

• “superbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “superbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "superbus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “superbus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “superbus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers