orgullo

Galician

Alternative forms

• orgulho (reintegrationist)
• argullo, orgulo, urgullo

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese orgullo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), borrowed from Old Catalan orgull, from Vulgar Latin *orgollium, itself from Proto-West Germanic *uʀgōllju, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *uzgōljō. Related to Portuguese orgulho, French orgueil, Italian orgoglio.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /oɾˈɡuɟo/ [oɾˈɣ̞u.ɟʊ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /oɾˈɡuɟo/ [oɾˈɣ̞u.ɟʊ]
• IPA^(key): (gheada) /oɾˈħuɟo/ [oɾˈħu.ɟʊ]

• Rhymes: -uɟo
• Hyphenation: or‧gu‧llo

Noun

orgullo m (plural orgullos)

1. pride

   Synonyms: fachenda, altiveza, galanía, garbo, borra

2. arrogance

   Synonyms: arruallo, fachenda, soberba, brúo

Derived terms

• orgulleza
• orgullosamente
• orgulloso

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “orgullo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “orgullo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “orgullo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “orgullo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “orgullo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan orgull, which it inherited from Vulgar Latin *orgollium. Compare Portuguese orgulho, French orgueil, and Italian orgoglio.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /oɾˈɡuʝo/ [oɾˈɣ̞u.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): /oɾˈɡuʝo/ [oɾˈɣ̞u.ʝo] (most of Spain and Latin America)
• IPA^(key): /oɾˈɡuʎo/ [oɾˈɣ̞u.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /oɾˈɡuʃo/ [oɾˈɣ̞u.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /oɾˈɡuʒo/ [oɾˈɣ̞u.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

 

• Rhymes: -uʝo

• Rhymes: -uʝo (most of Spain and Latin America)
• Rhymes: -uʎo (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -uʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
• Rhymes: -uʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Syllabification: or‧gu‧llo

Noun

orgullo m (plural orgullos)

1. pride (arrogance, haughtiness)
2. pride (sense of self-worth)
3. pride (something of which one is proud)
4. alternative letter-case form of Orgullo (“Pride; festival for LGBT people”); pride

Derived terms

• enorgullecer
• orgullo gay
• orgulloso
• tener más orgullo que don Rodrigo en la horca

Descendants

• → Bikol Central: orgulyo
• → Tagalog: orgulyo (literary)

References

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1985) “orgullo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 296

Further reading

• “orgullo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10