Where does “virtuoso” come from?
Virtuoso comes from Italian virtuoso, from Latin virtuosus meaning "excellent" or "skilled," derived from Latin vir meaning "man" and the adjectival suffix -osus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European wiHrós meaning "man."
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- An expert in virtù or art objects and...
Ancestry of “virtuoso”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | virtuoso | virtuous; skilful; upright |
| 2 | Latin | virtuōsus | good, virtuous |
| 3 | Latin | virtūs | manhood, manliness, virility |
| 4 | English | virtue | Accordance with moral principles; conformity of... |
| 5 | Middle English | vertu | An ability, specialty, or feature; Power,... |
| 6 | Anglo-Norman | vertu | valour; honour; goodness; virtue |
| 7 | Latin | virtutem | accusative singular of virtūs; virtue |
| 8 | Latin | virtus | manhood, manliness, virility; courage,... |
| 9 | Latin | vir | man in the sense of "adult male human"; adult,... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | wiros | a man |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | wiHrós | man; husband; warrior, hero |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | weyh₁- | to chase, pursue; to suppress, persecute |