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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English vertuous, borrowed from Anglo-Norman vertuous, vertous, ultimately from Late Latin virtuōsus, from Latin virtūs. Doublet of virtuoso.
Pronunciation
Adjective
virtuous (comparative more virtuous, superlative most virtuous)
- Full of virtue; having excellent moral character.
- Synonyms: good, righteous, (obsolete) virtual
Successful communities need strong, selfless leaders and a virtuous people.
Derived terms
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Translations
full of virtue; having excellent moral character
- Arabic: فَاضِل (fāḍil)
- Armenian: առաքինի (hy) (aṙakʻini)
- Belarusian: дабрадзе́йны (dabradzjéjny), цно́тлівы (cnótlivy), цно́тны (cnótny)
- Bengali: নেক (bn) (nek), ফাজেল (fazel)
- Bulgarian: доброде́телен (bg) (dobrodételen), целомъ́дрен (bg) (celomǎ́dren)
- Catalan: virtuós (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 有道德的 (yǒu dàodé de), 有德行的 (yǒu déxíng de), 貞／贞 (zh) (zhēn)
- Czech: ctnostný
- Danish: dydig
- Dutch: deugdzaam (nl)
- Esperanto: virta (eo)
- French: vertueux (fr)
- Galician: virtuoso
- Georgian: სათნო (satno), უმანკო (umanḳo), უმწიკვლო (umc̣iḳvlo)
- German: züchtig (de), tugendhaft (de), tugendsam (de)
- Greek: ηθικός (el) (ithikós), ενάρετος (el) (enáretos)
- Ancient: ἐνάρετος (enáretos)
- Ido: vertuoza (io)
- Italian: virtuoso (it)
- Latin: probus
- Latvian: tikumīgs, šķīsts
- Macedonian: доброде́телен (dobrodételen), до́блестен (dóblesten)
- Maori: tapatahi, ngākaupai
- Navajo: yáʼátʼéehii
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: dydig
- Occitan: virtuós
- Old High German: chiusce
- Plautdietsch: sitlich
- Polish: cnotliwy (pl)
- Portuguese: virtuoso (pt), nobre (pt), digno (pt)
- Romanian: virtuos (ro)
- Russian: доброде́тельный (ru) (dobrodételʹnyj), целому́дренный (ru) (celomúdrennyj)
- Sanskrit: गुणज्ञ (sa) (guṇajña)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: вр̏лӣ
- Roman: vȑlī (sh)
- Slovak: cnostný
- Slovene: čednosten
- Spanish: virtuoso (es)
- Swedish: dygdig (sv), dygdesam (sv)
- Turkish: erdemli (tr), faziletli (tr)
- Ukrainian: доброче́сний (dobročésnyj), цнотли́вий (uk) (cnotlývyj), чеснотли́вий (česnotlývyj)
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Further reading
- “virtuous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “virtuous”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Middle English
Adjective
virtuous
- Alternative form of vertuous