superbus

super- +‎ bus

superbus (plural superbuses)

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

• super-sub, supersub

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /suˈper.bus/, [s̠ʊˈpɛrbʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /suˈper.bus/, [suˈpɛrbus]

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

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

   Synonyms: ferōx, īnsolēns, arrogāns, impudēns

   Antonym: pudēns

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’s 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