different between arrogate vs arrogance

English

Etymology

From Latin arrog?tus, perfect passive participle of adrog?, arrog? (“ask of, adopt, appropriate, assume”), from ad (“to”) + rog? (“ask”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ???e?t/

Verb

arrogate (third-person singular simple present arrogates, present participle arrogating, simple past and past participle arrogated)

1. (transitive, rare) To appropriate or lay claim to something for oneself without right. [from 1530s]

   Synonyms: commandeer, expropriate, usurp

   Antonyms: abandon, abdicate, relinquish, renounce

   • “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons?! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

Related terms

• arrogance
• arrogant
• arrogation

Translations

Further reading

• arrogate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• arrogate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• arrogate at OneLook Dictionary Search

References

Italian

Verb

arrogate

1. second-person plural present indicative of arrogare
2. second-person plural imperative of arrogare
3. feminine plural of arrogato

Latin

Verb

arrog?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of arrog?

English

Alternative forms

• arrogaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English arrogaunce, from Middle French arrogance, from Latin arrogantia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ?.?.??ns/, /?æ?.o?.??ns/

Noun

arrogance (usually uncountable, plural arrogances)

1. The state of being arrogant; a type of extreme or foolish pride in which someone feels much superior to another.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:arrogance.

Antonyms

• servility

Related terms

• arrogancy
• arrogant
• arrogate
• arrogation

Translations

Further reading

• arrogance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• arrogance in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Latin arrogantia.

Noun

arrogance f (plural arrogances)

1. arrogance

Related terms

• arrogant

Further reading

• “arrogance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).