vertual
English
Adjective
vertual (not comparable)
- Obsolete spelling of virtual
- 1683, Joseph Moxon, “Numb[er] I. Applied to the Art of Printing. Preface.”, in Mechanick Exercises: Or, The Doctrine of Handy-Works. Applied to the Art of Printing. […], volume II, London: […] Joseph Moxon […], →OCLC, pages 5–6:
- For Dr. [John] Dee, in his Mathematical Preface to Euclids Elements of Geometrie, hath vvorthily taken pains to make Architecture a Mathematical Science; and as a vertual Proof of his ovvn Learned Plea, quotes tvvo Authentique Authors, viz. Vitruvius and Leo Baptiſta [i.e., Leon Battista Alberti], […]
Anagrams
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Medieval Latin virtuālis; equivalent to vertu + -al.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɛrtiu̯ˈaːl/, /ˈvɛrtiu̯al/, /virtiu̯ˈaːl/, /ˈvirtiu̯al/
Adjective
vertual (rare)
References
- “vertū̆ā̆l, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-10.
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