[lit-ideas] Re: "Virtue" in Classical Rome

From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 18:35:08 EDT

From the online Short/Lewis Latin Dictionary, below. I'm not sure how 'vir'  
developed into 'virtus' -- i.e. what the '-tus' is supposed to mean here. I  
suppose there was, as I say, a primitive Latin term for something like _female_ 
 virtue, too?
 
Cheers,
JL
 
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Excerpted:
 
_virtÅ«s_ 
(http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/morphindex?lang=la&lookup=virtus&bytepos=72754554&wordcount=1&embed=2&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0059)
  , Å«tis 
 f. vir , 
 
manliness, manhood, i. e. the sum of all the corporeal  or mental excellences 
of man, 
 
Also:  strength, vigor; bravery, courage; aptness, capacity;  worth, 
excellence, virtue, etc.: 
 
Transf., of animals, and of inanimate or abstract things,  goodness, worth, 
value, power, strength,  etc.: 
 
Also:  Moral perfection, virtuousness, virtue. 
 
Also:  Virtue, personified as a deity, Cic. 
 
Also:  Military talents, courage, valor, bravery,  gallantry, fortitude (syn. 
fortitudo), etc.: 
 
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[lit-ideas] Re: "Virtue" in Classical Rome

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