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Yes. The word virtus is a Scrabble US word. The word virtus is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (1 found)

VIRTUS,

5-letter words (2 found)

VIRTU,VIRUS,

4-letter words (7 found)

RITS,RUST,RUTS,STIR,SUIT,TUIS,UTIS,

3-letter words (12 found)

ITS,RIT,RUT,SIR,SIT,SRI,SUI,SUR,TIS,TUI,UTS,VIS,

2-letter words (8 found)

IS,IT,SI,ST,TI,UR,US,UT,

You can make 30 words from virtus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of virtus

virtus

Latin

Etymology

vir (“man, male”) +‎ -tūs (abstract noun-forming suffix)

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯ir.tuːs/, [ˈu̯ɪrt̪uːs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvir.tus/, [ˈvirt̪us]

Noun

virtūs f (genitive virtūtis); third declension

  1. manhood, manliness, virility
  2. courage, valor, resoluteness, gallantry
    Synonyms: spīritus, fortitūdō, fīdūcia, animus
  3. virtue, goodness
    Synonyms: bonum, rēctum
    Antonyms: vitium, culpa, malum, iniūria, noxa, peccātum, dēlictum, error
  4. excellence, merit, worth, character
  5. (figuratively) strength (of medicine or herbs)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

  • (manliness): virātus (Late Latin)

Derived terms

  • virtuōsus

Descendants

References

  • “virtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “virtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • virtus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • virtus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “virtus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “virtus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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