Fortitude is courage in bearing pain or trouble. Great fortitude, show fortitude, bear it with fortitude.
It is endurance rather than daring: fortitude is the courage of putting up with something rather than the courage of doing something, which is why it is the word for illness and grief. It is one of the four cardinal virtues.
1nounfortitudeCourage in bearing pain or trouble.
“She faced her long illness with great fortitude and never complained.”
fortitude is a virtue.
Latin fortitudo comes from fortis, strong or brave. Force and fort are relatives.
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰerǵʰ-
Latin
fortitūdō — bravery, strength
Middle English
fortitude
English, today
fortitude
Built from
From Middle English fortitude, from Old French -, from Latin fortitūdō (“bravery, strength”), from fortis (“brave, strong”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA