vir-, viri-, virtu-
(Latin: man, manliness, manhood; masculine; husband)
invirtuate
1. To make virtuous.
2. To endow with virtue or power.
2. To endow with virtue or power.
levirate
1. Brother-in-law.
2. The custom among the Jews and some other nations, by which the brother or next of kin to a deceased man was bound under certain circumstances to marry the widow.
2. The custom among the Jews and some other nations, by which the brother or next of kin to a deceased man was bound under certain circumstances to marry the widow.
Nemo unquam vir magnus fuit, sine aliquo divino afflatu.
No one was ever a great man without some divine inspiration.
A legal term.
Non solum ingenii, verum etiam virtutis.
Not only talent, but also virtue.
Motto of Liverpool College, U.K.
octovirate
A body of eight men, a council of eight.
Polygamia est plurium simul virorum uxorumve connubium. (Latin-legal term)
Translation: "Polygamy is a marriage with many husbands or wives at one time."
Praestatur laus virtuti, sed multo ocius verno gelu tabescit.
Praise is bestowed on virtue but vanishes more quickly than frost in spring.
Primum vir esto. (Latin motto)
Translation: "First, be a man."
Motto of Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas, USA.
quadrivirate
A union of four men.
quadrumvir, quadrumvirate
One of four men.
quadrumvirate
quatuorvirate
quindecemvir
A member of a body, commission, etc., of fifteen men; especially one of the priests who had charge of the Sibylline books.
quingentumvirate
A government consisting of five hundred men.
quinquevirate
An association, board, etc., consisting of five men.
