The virtue Surname
virtue Name Meaning and History
English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English, Old French
vertu ‘moral worth’; ‘goodness’ (Latin virtus
‘manliness’, ‘valor’, ‘worth’). This may have been bestowed on a good
or pious person, it may alternatively have been a sarcastic nickname
for a prig, or it may have been borne by someone who had played the
part of Virtue in a medieval mystery play.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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