Where does “virilitate” come from?
virilitate (Romanian) comes from French virilité, from Latin virīlitās, from Latin virilis, from Latin vir, from Proto-Italic wiros, from Proto-Indo-European wiHrós, from Proto-Indo-European weyh₁- — to chase, pursue; to suppress, persecute.
virilitate (Romanian): virility
Ancestry of “virilitate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | virilité | virility |
| 2 | Latin | virīlitās | — |
| 3 | Latin | virilis | manly, masculine, virile; mature |
| 4 | Latin | vir | man in the sense of "adult male human"; adult,... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | wiros | a man |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | wiHrós | man; husband; warrior, hero |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | weyh₁- | to chase, pursue; to suppress, persecute |