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virtuoso
1620, "scholar, connoisseur," from It.
virtuoso
(pl.
virtuosi
), noun use of adj. meaning "skilled, learned, of exceptional worth," from L.L.
virtuosus
(see
virtuous
). Meaning "person with great skill" (as in music) is first attested 1743.