virtute
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Interlingua
[edit]Noun
[edit]virtute (plural virtutes)
Latin
[edit]Noun
[edit]virtūte f
- ablative singular of virtūs
- By virtue, character, excellence, courage, or manliness.
- "Virtute et armis" is Mississippi's state motto.
- "Virtute et industria" is the city motto of Bristol.
References
[edit]- virtute in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to be virtuous: virtute praeditum, ornatum esse (opp. vitiis obrutum esse)
- (ambiguous) to live as scrupulously moral a life as ever: nihil ex pristina virtute remittere
- (ambiguous) to consider virtue the highest good: summum bonum in virtute ponere
- (ambiguous) to deviate from the path of virtue: a virtute discedere or deficere
- (ambiguous) to deteriorate: a maiorum virtute desciscere, degenerare, deflectere
- (ambiguous) moral precepts: praecepta de moribus or de virtute
- (ambiguous) to give moral advice, rules of conduct: de virtute praecipere alicui
- (ambiguous) good luck to you: macte virtute (esto or te esse iubeo)
- (ambiguous) to be virtuous: virtute praeditum, ornatum esse (opp. vitiis obrutum esse)
- Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary 2008.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin virtūs, virtūtem. See also the older inherited form, vârtute.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]virtute f (plural virtuți)
Categories:
- Interlingua lemmas
- Interlingua nouns
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin noun forms
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
- Romanian terms borrowed from Latin
- Romanian terms derived from Latin
- Romanian doublets
- Romanian terms with audio pronunciation
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian feminine nouns