From Latin ad-rogare—to ask toward oneself, to appropriate by request.
But this is no open question—it is a veiled assertion.

Structurally, arrogance is the attempt to secure identity or worth
through external confirmation—because inner sufficiency has been obscured.

It says, “I claim what I am,” forgetting that it was never lost.

Arrogance looks like excess, 
but it is the sound of lack—
a self speaking loudly because it cannot hear itself.

In clear structure, arrogance dissolves not through humility, but through remembrance.

When being is seen as already whole,
all need to claim falls away.