virtuosity

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• /ˌvɜː(ɹ)tjuˈɒsɪti/
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyh1-? Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós Proto-Italic *wiros Latin vir Proto-Indo-European *-tuHts Latin -tūs Latin virtūs Proto-Indo-European *h3ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h3édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Late Latin virtuōsusbor. Italian virtuosobor. English virtuoso Proto-Indo-European *-teh2 Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh2ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English virtuosity From virtuoso + -ity (“quality of”); the terminal -o drops out. Compare Middle English vertuosite (“virtuous quality or character”).

19 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: виртуозност (virtuoznost) — technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso
• Catalan: virtuosisme — technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso
• Esperanto: bravuro — technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso
• Finnish: mestaruus — technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso
• Finnish: mestarillisuus — technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso
• Finnish: virtuositeetti — technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso
• Finnish: taituruus — technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso
• French: virtuosité — technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso
• Interlingua: virtuositate — technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso
• Irish: rímháistreacht — technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso
• Italian: virtuosità — technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso
• Polish: wirtuozeria — technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso
• Polish: wirtuozostwo — technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso
• Polish: wirtuozerstwo — technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso
• Polish: wirtuozja — technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso
• Romanian: virtuozitate — technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso
• Romanian: măiestrie — technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso
• Russian: виртуозность (virtuoznostʹ) — technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso
• Slovak: virtuozita — technical skills and fluent style of a virtuoso