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Virtue and "Manliness"

I was led to check this out after listening to a Christian man speaking to some young men about living a "virtuous" life and that given that the Indo-European word which gave birth to the word "virtue" also meant man.

"English got the word virtue from French and it shows up around 1250 as an English word, consistent with other words injected into the language under the influence of the French rulers of England after the Norman Conquest.

Back in Latin before evolving into a French word, the meaning was remarkably stable and reflected this sense of “goodness.”

Today we can taste a little sense of moral strength in the word virtue and this was an even stronger sense of the word back through time.

The root of the word though was vir from Indo-European wiro meaning “man.”

So virtue actually means “manliness” and gets it sense of strength from that manly sense.

That’s why people thousands of years ago might not have liked to think of females as virtuous."

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