Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗The fine arts as a subject of study or expertise; understanding of arts and antiquities. · Objets d'art collectively. · Especially with reference to the writings of Machiavelli (1469–1527): the requisite qualities for political or military success; vitality, determination; power. · Moral worth; virtue, virtuousness.
Borrowed from Italian virtù, †vertù (“moral worth, virtue (13th century); determination, perseverance, military valour (14th century); study of the liberal or fine arts; appreciation of, taste for, or expertise in the fine arts; objets d'art collectively (16th century)”); or from French vertu (“virtue”), ultimately from Latin virtūt-, virtus (“virtue”). Doublet of virtue; compare also virtuoso.
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- Borrowed-form mentionvirtù, †vertùit
- Unspecified derivation mentionvertufr
- Unspecified derivation mentionvirtūt-, virtusla
- Doublet mentionvirtueen
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