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2011 07 06 / VIRTUAL word of the day : virtual [ mainly etymonline ] : ... skt. virah, avest. vira-, oir. fer, welsh gwr, goth. wair, oe. wer "man", lith. vyras !!! pol. wyraz = word, expression ... clear undeceiving appearance !!! lat. vir "man" - virtutem / virtus "moral strength, manliness, valor, excellence, worth" ~1200 virtue : sense of "efficacy" - virtuos : ~1300 "valiant, valorous, manly" ~1390 a chaste woman ~1300 "seven cardinal virtues" | natural : justice, prudence, temperance, fortitude & theological : hope, faith, charity ~1400 "capable of producing a certain effect" ~1650 "being something in essence or fact, though not in name" Good Strong Men: Manly Men and Virtue | http://t.co/e3Vz16O ~1390 "to make a virtue of a necessity" | lat. "facere de necessitate virtutem" >>> demand demand, the empty space, to pull, suck, negative pressure, vacuum, absence, osmosis, the middle, core, ... ... unterdruck / unterdrueckung - pressure, urge, demand & tender -------------------------------------------------------- |
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