Where does “vertu” come from?
Vertu comes from Italian virtù, from Italian virtute, from Latin virtus meaning manly excellence or courage, derived from Latin vir meaning man, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European wiHrós.
vertu (English): The fine arts as a subject of study or expertise;...
Definitions
- The fine arts as a subject of study or expertise;...
Ancestry of “vertu”, step by step
vertu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French vertu
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | vertu | virtue |
| 2 | Middle French | vertu | virtue |
| 3 | Old French | vertu | valour; honour; goodness; virtue |
| 4 | Latin | virtūs | manhood, manliness, virility |
| 5 | English | virtue | Accordance with moral principles; conformity of... |
| 6 | Middle English | vertu | An ability, specialty, or feature; Power,... |
| 7 | Anglo-Norman | vertu | valour; honour; goodness; virtue |
| 8 | Latin | virtutem | accusative singular of virtūs; virtue |
| 9 | Latin | virtus | manhood, manliness, virility; courage,... |
| 10 | Latin | vir | man in the sense of "adult male human"; adult,... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | wiros | a man |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | wiHrós | man; husband; warrior, hero |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | weyh₁- | to chase, pursue; to suppress, persecute |