vanglorioso

Forms

vanglorioso (feminine vangloriosa, masculine plural vangloriosos, feminine plural vangloriosas, metaphonic)^[1] The 15th-century records write uaãglorioso and, in two words, vaão glorioso.^[2] The plural is pronounced with an open vowel, vangloriosos /ó/.^[3]

Etymology

It is formed from Portuguese vanglória + -oso, and is recorded from the 15th century.^[2][1][4][5] The noun was first written apart, as Old Galician-Portuguese vaã gloria in the 14th century, and fuses the feminine vã “vain, empty” with glória.^[6][7] Wiktionary takes the noun from Medieval Latin vāna glōria instead, from vānus (“empty, groundless, boastful”) and the Latin noun for “fame, boasting”, and compares vanagloria and vainglory.^[1]

Semantic evolution

The sense has stayed that of the noun: one who thinks too much of his own merits and boasts of them.^[2] Bluteau defines the man who easily boasts and is vain of anything, rendering it with Cicero's Latin “one who chases the shadows of false glory”, and Folqman gives the same Latin.^[8][9] The modern dictionaries also apply it to attitudes and acts that show such vanity, and Michaelis stresses that the glory boasted of is only an appearance.^[4][10]

Timeline

• 14th century – the noun vanglória is recorded, spelt vaã gloria and vããgloria.^[6]
• 15th century – first record of the adjective, spelt uaãglorioso.^[2]
• 1650 – first record of the verb vangloriar-se.^[11]
• 1712–1728 – Bluteau defines the word.^[8]
• 1755 – Folqman glosses it in Latin as inaniter gloriosus.^[9]

Meanings

Adjective

1. Full of vainglory (vanglória): having an exaggerated idea of one's own merits and boasting of them; boastful (jactancioso), vain (vaidoso).^[2][4][3]
2. Showing such vanity, of an attitude or act: um discurso vanglorioso.^[4][12]

Related words

• vanglória
• vangloriar
• glória
• vão
• Spanish vanagloria

References

1. ^ a b c d e f Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e Houaiss, Antônio; Villar, Mauro de Salles (2001), Dicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, p. s.v. vanglorioso
3. ^ a b Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa, Lisboa: Priberam Informática, https://dicionario.priberam.org, p. s.v. vanglorioso
4. ^ a b c d Ferreira, Aurélio Buarque de Holanda, Novo dicionário Aurélio da língua portuguesa, digital edition, p. s.v. vanglorioso
5. ^ Silva Bastos, José Timóteo da (1912), Diccionario etymologico, prosodico e orthographico da lingua portugueza, Lisboa: Parceria António Maria Pereira, p. s.v. vanglorioso
6. ^ a b Houaiss, Antônio; Villar, Mauro de Salles (2001), Dicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, p. s.v. vanglória
7. ^ Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2010), Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa, 4th ed., Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon, p. s.v. vanglória
8. ^ a b Bluteau, Raphael (1712–1728), Vocabulario portuguez e latino, 8 vols. + 2 supplement vols., Coimbra / Lisboa (CLP transcription, Universidade de Aveiro), p. s.v. vanglorioso
9. ^ a b Folqman, Carlos (1755), Diccionario portuguez, e latino, Lisboa: Régia Officina Silviana (CLP transcription, Universidade de Aveiro), p. s.v. vanglorioso
10. ^ Michaelis: Moderno Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa, São Paulo: Melhoramentos (online as Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa, https://michaelis.uol.com.br), p. s.v. vanglorioso
11. ^ Houaiss, Antônio; Villar, Mauro de Salles (2001), Dicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, p. s.v. vangloriar
12. ^ Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa, revised online edition (2023–) of the Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Contemporânea (2001), https://dicionario.acad-ciencias.pt, p. s.v. vanglorioso