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pristine
English
Etymology 1
From Middle French pristin, borrowed from Latin pristinus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p??sti?n/, /p??s?ti?n/, /p??s?ta?n/
- Rhymes: -i?n, -a?n
Adjective
pristine (comparative more pristine, superlative most pristine)
- Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied.
- Primitive, pertaining to the earliest state of something.
- Thus fable reports that the fair Grimalkin, whom Venus, at the desire of a passionate lover, converted from a cat into a fine woman, no sooner perceived a mouse than, mindful of her former sport, and still retaining her pristine nature, she leaped from the bed of her husband to pursue the little animal.
- Perfect.
Derived terms
- pristinely
Translations
Etymology 2
From Ancient Greek ??????? (príst?s, “a saw, one that saws”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?n
Adjective
pristine (comparative more pristine, superlative most pristine)
- Relating to sawfishes of the family Pristidae.
- 2008, J.M. Whitty, N.M. Phillips, D.L. Morgan, J.A. Chaplin, D.C. Thorburn & S.C. Peverell, Habitat associations of Freshwater Sawfish (Pristis microdon)and Northern River Sharks (Glyphis sp. C): including genetic analysis of P. microdon across northern Australia [1]
- This indicates that the present levels of genetic diversity in P. microdon are not unusually low, although the amount of diversity to be expected in pristine populations of coastal species of elasmobranch remains elusive because all populations investigated to date have suffered some degree of decline (e.g. Sandoval-Castillo et al. 2004, Keeney et al. 2005, Hoelzel et al. 2006, Stow et al. 2006, Lewallen et al. 2007).
- 2008, J.M. Whitty, N.M. Phillips, D.L. Morgan, J.A. Chaplin, D.C. Thorburn & S.C. Peverell, Habitat associations of Freshwater Sawfish (Pristis microdon)and Northern River Sharks (Glyphis sp. C): including genetic analysis of P. microdon across northern Australia [1]
Anagrams
- Petrinis, spiriten
Italian
Adjective
pristine
- feminine plural of pristino
Latin
Adjective
pr?stine
- vocative masculine singular of pr?stinus
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virtuous
English
Alternative forms
- vertuous (obsolete)
- vertuus (obsolete)
- virtuose (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English vertuous, borrowed from Anglo-Norman vertuous, vertous, ultimately from Late Latin virtu?sus, from Latin virt?s.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?v??t????s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?v?t??u?s/
- Hyphenation: vir?tu?ous
Adjective
virtuous (comparative more virtuous, superlative most virtuous)
- Full of virtue, having excellent moral character.
Synonyms
- good
- righteous
Derived terms
- virtuous circle, virtuous cycle
- virtuousness
Related terms
- virtual
- virtue
- virtuosity
Translations
Further reading
- virtuous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- virtuous in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Middle English
Adjective
virtuous
- Alternative form of vertuous
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