Translation
virtue
Word origin
From Latin virtus ('excellence, worth, manliness'), built on vir ('man'). The Roman sense was closer to strength of character than to modern piety.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- virtus
- English cognates
- virtue, virtuous, virtuoso
Examples
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Patience is a great virtue.
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He has many virtues and a few bad habits.
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He praised his mother's virtues.
The seam is false: is a single root, not ('man') plus a suffix, even though Latin built virtus on two thousand years ago. Its opposite in moral talk is , a sin, and the adjective virta describes the person who has the quality.
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