vanagloria.
vainglory
Meaning & usage
vainglory
boastfulness
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- Proto-Italic *wānos Latin vānus Latin gloria Medieval Latin vāna glōriabor. Spanish vanagloria From Medieval Latin vāna glōria, from Latin vāna (“empty, groundless, boastful”) + glōria (“fame, ambition, boasting”). By surface analysis, vana (“vain; arrogant”) + gloria (“glory”). Cognate with English vainglory, Portuguese vanglória and Italian vanagloria.
only used in se vanagloria, third-person singular present indicative of vanagloriarse only used in te ... vanagloria, syntactic variant of vanaglóriate, second-person singular imperative of vanagloriarse
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