orgullo

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish orgullo (“pride”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oɾˈɡuʎo/, [oɾˈɡu.ʎo]
• Hyphenation: or‧gu‧llo

Noun

orgullo

1. pride

Related terms

• orgulloso

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: arrogancia, arruallo, fachenda, soberba, brúo

Derived terms

• orgulleza
• orgullosamente
• orgulloso

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “orgullo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “orgullo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (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] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /oɾˈɡuʎo/ [oɾˈɣ̞u.ʎo] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /oɾˈɡuʃo/ [oɾˈɣ̞u.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /oɾˈɡuʒo/ [oɾˈɣ̞u.ʒo] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /oɾˈɡujo/ [oɾˈɣ̞u.jo] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

 

• Rhymes: -uʝo

• Rhymes: -uʝo (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• Rhymes: -uʎo (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -uʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
• Rhymes: -uʒo (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• Rhymes: -ujo (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

• 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

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

References

• Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1985), “orgullo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎^[2] (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 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025