English
evertuate
Evertuate comes from French évertuer ‘to strive’, from vertu ‘virtue’, and perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- ‘to chase, pursue’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*weyh₁-1‘to chase, pursue’uncertain
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wiHrós1‘man’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wiros1‘a man’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvir1‘man, male’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvirtūs2as virtūtem‘courage, valor, resoluteness, gallantry’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400vertu2‘valour’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600vertu2‘virtue’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentvertu3‘virtue’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentévertuer4‘to strive’
- Englishearliest quotation 1644evertuate4
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, Latin virtus
- 2 Wiktionary, French vertu
- 3 Wiktionary, French évertuer
- 4 Wiktionary, English evertuate
- Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1644, Henry Parker, Jus Populi: “For besides that the Senate had been now long…”.
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*weyh₁-Wiktionary, Latin virtus‘to chase, pursue’uncertain
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wiHrósWiktionary, Latin virtus‘man’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wirosWiktionary, Latin virtus‘a man’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvirWiktionary, Latin virtus‘man, male’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvirtūsWiktionary, French vertuas virtūtem‘courage, valor, resoluteness, gallantry’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400vertuWiktionary, French vertu‘valour’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600vertuWiktionary, French vertu‘virtue’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentvertuWiktionary, French évertuer‘virtue’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentévertuerWiktionary, English evertuate‘to strive’
- Englishearliest quotation 1644evertuateWiktionary, English evertuate. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1644, Henry Parker, Jus Populi: “For besides that the Senate had been now long…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- ‘to chase, pursue’
previous, obvious, violent, violation, inevitable, voyage, trivial, convey, vengeance, envoy, trivia, vis, violate, deviation, avenge, deviant, vindication, viaduct, venison, ochre, vim, inviolable, violator, trivium, obviate, 50 more
through Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós ‘man’
through Latin vir ‘man, male’
virile, virility, virago, 3 more
through Latin virtūs ‘courage, valor, resoluteness, gallantry’
Today it means
verb To sap the strength of.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “evertuate”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Latin virtus, French vertu, French évertuer. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- / evertuate