Pride
Etymology
From Old English "prȳde," from "prūd" (“proud”), most likely borrowed from Old French "prud/prod," “brave, valiant, worthy,” from Late Latin "prode," “useful, advantageous.” Curiously, the English word carried a more negative charge than its French source almost from the start — to the medieval church, pride was "superbia," the first and deadliest of the seven sins.
noun · /PRYD/
A feeling of satisfaction in one’s own achievements, qualities, or those of people close to one — or, negatively, an inflated sense of one’s own importance.
What it names
Reach for it for the double-edged self-regard: the warm, earned kind that dignifies effort, and the swollen kind that blinds.
Example
She felt a deep pride watching her daughter defend the thesis she’d worked on for years.
Related idea
Pride’s two faces map onto its neighbors: at its healthy end it shades into dignity and self-respect; at its inflated end it becomes vanity (craving others’ admiration) or hubris (the overreach that invites a fall). The same word names a virtue and a vice, which is why context — earned versus merely assumed — does all the work.
noun · /PRYD/
A family group of lions that lives and hunts together.
What it names
a social group of lions
Example
A pride of lions rested in the shade of the acacia.
Related idea
A collective noun for lions, rooted in the same old word for splendor but unrelated to the emotion in everyday use.