virtus

The dictionary states that one of the Irish words for virtue is feart, which can be traced back, via the Old Irish firt, to the Latin word virtus (virtue).

Nancy's Baby Names 2009

The dictionary states that one of the Irish words for virtue is feart, which can be traced back, via the Old Irish firt, to the Latin word virtus (virtue).

Nancy's Baby Names 2009

Virtues (the Latin word 'virtus', means 'moral excellence') concerns the kinds of ethics and morals an individual or community finds desirable and appropriate.

Positive Psychology News Daily 2008

Even the Roman word virtus, meaning “courage,” was rooted in the word for “man,” vir.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

In Quodlibet X of the Advent Session, 1286, Henry returns to the problem of the self-motion of the will, introducing the notion of virtus ad movendum, through which the spiritual faculties

Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol) 2009

"By means of a means (faculty)," namely the virtus dormitiva, replies the doctor in Moliere,

Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

"In that age," says Plutarch in the life of Coriolanus, "martial prowess was more honored and prized in Rome than all the other virtues, insomuch that it was called virtus, the name of virtue itself, by applying the name of the kind to this particular species; so that virtue in Latin was as much as to say valor."

democracy in America, volume 2 1838

"In that age," says Plutarch in the life of Coriolanus, "martial prowess was more honored and prized in Rome than all the other virtues, insomuch that it was called virtus, the name of virtue itself, by applying the name of the kind to this particular species; so that virtue in Latin was as much as to say valor."

Democracy in America — Volume 2 Alexis de Tocqueville 1832

With them, "virtus" meant strength -- that only -- a battle term.

A Hero and Some Other Folks 1892

It will conduce little to the valour, "virtus," manhood of any Englishman to be informed by any poet, even in the most melodious verse, illustrated by the most startling and pan cosmic metaphors.

Literary and General Lectures and Essays Charles Kingsley 1847