2184: proud Dec 7, 2020

Pride is a good thing in moderation, but the notion that that word related to emotion at all is a later development in its history. It comes from the Old English 'prud' from the Latin 'prode' meaning 'excellent', 'advantageous' but also 'arrogant', which makes it related to 'improve' but also to 'prude'. In any case, while 'proud' has had the sense of "being excited by something" since the 13th century at least, the more moralistic sense of having a high opinion of oneself is only found in English and not in French or Latin, which might actually reflect what the Anglo-Saxons thought of the Norman invaders, and even in other Germanic languages it retained a meaning of 'brave; valiant'.