vertu
Middle English
/ˈvɛrtiu̯/
noun
Definitions
- An ability, specialty, or feature:
- Power, competence, ability; ability to effect behaviour or action:
- Virtue moral goodness, adherence to ethics:
- One of several ranks of angels, being above "powers" and below "dominions".
- A military troop or band; a group of combatants.
- Willpower or mental fibre; one's ability to fulfill one's will.
- Glory, honourableness, or knightliness; that expected by chivalry.
- Sapience, wisdom, higher functioning or that which causes it.
- Raw physical strength, exertion, or endurance.
- The constitution, health, or animacy of a living thing.
Etymology
Borrowed from vertu derived from Latin virtūtem (virtue).
Origin
Latin
virtūtem
Gloss
virtue
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- unvirtue English
- virtual English
- virtue English
- virtuecrat English
- virtueless English
- virtuous English
- virtus Latin
- virtuālis Latin
- virtūtem Latin
- vertu French
- *wiHrós Proto-Indo-European
- vertual Middle English
- vertually Middle English
- vertue Middle English
- vertulees Middle English
- vertuous Middle English
- vertuously Middle English
- vertuousnesse Middle English
- virtyt Albanian
- vertude Old Portuguese
- vertu xno
- vertuous xno