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Where does “Virgil” come from?

Virgil comes from Middle English Vyrgyle, from Latin Virgilius, a variant of Latin Vergilius, with the personal name suffix -ius deriving from Proto-Indo-European -ósyo through Proto-Italic -jos and Proto-Indo-European -yós.

Ancestry of “Virgil”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle EnglishVyrgyle—
2LatinVirgilius—
3LatinVergilius—
4LatinVergilus—

Words derived from “Virgil”

  • Virgilian
  • Vergilian
Every word from Latin Vergilus →