"virtue" in seven languages
Meaningvirtue
Spanish
virtud
/biɾˈtud/
fem.learned
Semi-learned; Old Spanish also had vertud.
French
vertu
/vɛʁty/
fem.inherited
Italian
virtù
/virˈtu/
fem.inherited
plural: virtù
Portuguese
virtude
/vihˈtudʒi/
fem.learned
Semi-learned like Spanish virtud: the Latin i was kept.
Romanian
virtute
/virˈtute/
fem.learned
Catalan
virtut
/birˈtut/
fem.learned
English
virtue
/ˈvɝtʃu/
from Latin/French · Anglo-French vertu
English → ItalianvirtuevirtùCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
VIRTŪTEM‘manliness, courage, excellence (VIR 'man')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
-TŪTEM behaves like -TĀTEM: -tud, -tu, -tù (compare juventud and gioventù; French chose jeunesse). A virtuoso, from Italian, was a person of excellence.
English relatives: virtue, virtuous, virtuoso, virile