Virile means strong and full of manly vigour. A virile young man, virile prose, look virile.
It is dated and often faintly ridiculous now, since the idea of manliness it carries is a nineteenth-century one. It is also used medically of fertility in men. The Latin vir means a man, and virtue comes from the same word.
1adjectivevirileStrong and full of manly vigour.
“The advert showed a virile young man chopping wood with his shirt off.”
virile is a quality.
Latin virilis comes from vir, a man. Virtue is from the same root and first meant manliness.
Latin
virīlis
Middle French
viril
English, today
virile
From Middle French viril, from Latin virīlis, from vir + īlis.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA