Ideas across traditions · wisdom · Greek

virtue

A common word: it appears in 45% of all works on the maps, so its reach across traditions is a fact about English, not about the idea. The works are listed for completeness; the analogues below are the judged connections.

Also under: “tugend” · “vertu” · “virtu” · “arete” · “virtute” · “དགེ་བ་” · “dge ba” · “virtus” · “དགེ་བ” · “ἀρετή” · “dge-ba” · “德” · “uirtus” · “དགེ་བ།” · “ἀρετὴ” · “virtutem”

363works in other traditions, with a cited page
28works in Greek, its home tradition on the maps
600further works where only a vocabulary list or keyword names it; not shown
0judged analogues in other traditions (a different word for a neighbouring idea)

In other traditions

Ordered by the earliest work in each tradition that attests the concept. Within a tradition, works run from earliest to latest by conventional composition date.

Zoroastrianfrom 1000 BCE · 2 works

Chinesefrom 600 BCE · 18 works

and 13 more works in Chinese; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Hebrew & Jewishfrom 500 BCE · 12 works

and 7 more works in Hebrew & Jewish; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Hellenistic & Late Antiquefrom 350 BCE · 56 works

and 51 more works in Hellenistic & Late Antique; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Indianfrom 200 BCE · 8 works

and 3 more works in Indian; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Romanfrom 55 BCE · 32 works

and 27 more works in Roman; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Early Christian & Monasticfrom 90 CE · 25 works

and 20 more works in Early Christian & Monastic; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Hermetic & Gnosticfrom 150 CE · 15 works

and 10 more works in Hermetic & Gnostic; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Syriac & Armenianfrom 360 CE · 1 work

Byzantine & Orthodoxfrom 379 CE · 9 works

and 4 more works in Byzantine & Orthodox; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Buddhistfrom 380 CE · 6 works

and 1 more works in Buddhist; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Arabicfrom 750 CE · 12 works

and 7 more works in Arabic; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Medieval Latinfrom 867 CE · 52 works

and 47 more works in Medieval Latin; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Tibetanfrom 1080 · 18 works

and 13 more works in Tibetan; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Renaissance & Early Modern Europefrom 1366 · 55 works

and 50 more works in Renaissance & Early Modern Europe; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Turkicfrom 1564 · 1 work

Kabbalistic & Hasidicfrom 1600 · 3 works

Modern Europeanfrom 1660 · 26 works

and 21 more works in Modern European; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Theosophical & Modern Esotericfrom 1775 · 6 works

and 1 more works in Theosophical & Modern Esoteric; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Norse & Celticfrom 1835 · 1 work

Native American & Mesoamericanfrom 1868 · 1 work

Africanfrom 1890 · 4 works

At home in Greek

and 20 more.

Evidence gate. A work is listed only where a translator marked the word as a term with a gloss, or kept the original word beside the English, on at least one page of a held edition. Vocabulary lists and keywords alone do not count: in a Greek vocabulary list ἡσυχία is the ordinary word for quiet. Up to 3 pages are shown per work, preferring those with a gloss. The vocabulary was built 2026-09-11; the graph on 2026-09-13.