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English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /va?s/
• Rhymes: -a?s
• Homophone: vise

Etymology 1

From Middle English vice, from Old French vice, from Latin vitium (“fault or blemish”). Displaced native Old English unþ?aw.

Noun

vice (plural vices)

1. A bad habit.

2. (law) Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to weapons, prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, tobacco, or drugs.
3. A defect in the temper or behaviour of a horse, such as to make the animal dangerous, to injure its health, or to diminish its usefulness.
   • 1839, From the case of Scholefield v. Robb Gilligan, Brenda (2002) Practical Horse Law?^[1], ?ISBN: “So a horse with say, navicular disease, making him suitable only for light hacking, would probably be unsound, whereas rearing would be a vice, being a "defect in the temper... making it dangerous". A vice can however render a horse unsound - possibly a crib biter will damage its wind.”

Antonyms

• (bad habit): virtue

Derived terms

• by vice of
• inherent vice
• vice squad

Related terms

Translations

See also

• habit

Etymology 2

See vise.

Noun

vice (plural vices)

1. Alternative spelling of vise (“mechanical screw apparatus used for clamping”)
2. A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
3. (architecture) A winding or spiral staircase.
4. (obsolete) A grip or grasp.

Translations

Verb

vice (third-person singular simple present vices, present participle vicing, simple past and past participle viced)

1. Alternative spelling of vise (“to hold or squeeze with a vice”)

Etymology 3

From Latin vice (“in place of”), ablative form of vicis. Compare French fois (“time”) and Spanish vez (“time, turn”).

Adjective

vice (not comparable)

1. in place of; subordinate to; designating a person below another in rank

Derived terms

Preposition

vice

1. (dated) instead of, in place of, versus (sense 2)

Usage notes

• While rare in modern standard English, this usage still appears among members of the United States military.
• Statements such as "vice Jones, who had resigned" may be abbreviated "vice Jones, resigned"

Noun

vice (plural vices)

1. One who acts in place of a superior.
   • c. 1850s-1870s, Edward Minister and Son, The Gazette of Fashion and Cutting-Room Companion

     The health of the Vice was proposed in appropriate language; in replying, Mr. Marriott thanked the company […]

Further reading

• vice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ICEV, cive

Esperanto

Adverb

vice

1. in rows

Related terms

• vico

French

Etymology

From Middle French vice, from Old French vice, borrowed from Latin vitium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vis/
• Homophones: vis, visse, vissent, visses
• Rhymes: -is

Noun

vice m (plural vices)

1. vice (clarification of this definition is needed)

Derived terms

See also

• défaut
• péché

Further reading

• “vice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English vice-, French vice-, German vize-, Italian vice-, Russian ?????- (více-), Spanish vice-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi.t?se/

Preposition

vice

1. instead, instead of

Derived terms

References

• Progreso III (in Ido), 1910–1911, page 102
• Progreso IV (in Ido), 1911–1912, pages 211, 408, 409
• Progreso V (in Ido), 1912–1913, page 723
• Progreso VII (in Ido), 1914, page 130

Italian

Etymology

From Latin vicem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi.t??e/
• Rhymes: -it?e

Noun

vice m or f (invariable)

1. deputy, substitute, vice

Related terms

• vicepresidente
• vice-

Anagrams

• veci

Latin

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?i.ke/, [?u??k?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vi.t??e/, [?vi?t???]

Noun

vice

1. ablative singular of vicis

Preposition

vice

1. in place of, subordinate to

Derived terms

• vice vers?

Descendants

• English: vice-
• French: vice
• Ido: vice
• Italian: vice
• Piedmontese: vice
• Swedish: vice

Etymology 2

Noun

v?ce

1. vocative singular of v?cus

References

• vice in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vice in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vice in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle English

Alternative forms

• vyce, vyse, vijs, wise, vise, wyce, vyhs

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French vice, visse, from Latin vitium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi?s(?)/

Noun

vice (plural vices)

1. A fault or imperfection; a negative quality or attribute of something:
   1. A bad habit or tendency that one has; a negative human behaviour.
   2. A mistake; a fault due to deficience in knowledge or reasoning.
   3. (rare) An imperfection or blemish in one's visage or look.
2. Vice, iniquity, sinful behaviour; absence of virtue or morality:
   1. A vice; a general tendency or action that is morally bad.
   2. A specific example of immoral or sinful behaviour.
3. A sickness, disease or malady; a deleterious process effecting something.

Related terms

• viciate
• vicious
• viciously
• viciousnesse

Descendants

• English: vice
• Scots: vice

References

• “v?ce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-01.

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French vice, borrowed from Latin vitium.

Noun

vice m (plural vices)

1. vice (bad habit)

Descendants

• French: vice

Portuguese

Noun

vice m, f (plural vices)

1. used as an abbreviation of any word containing the prefix vice-

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ì?t?s?/, /?í?t?s?/

Noun

v?ce f pl

1. purgatory

Inflection

Spanish

Noun

vice m or f (plural vice)

1. vice (second in command)

Swedish

Pronunciation

Adjective

vice (not comparable)

1. vice, second in rank, deputy, stand-in, acting

Related terms

• vicedirektör
• vicekonung
• vicepresident
• vicevärd
• vice versa

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English wicked, wikked, an alteration of Middle English wicke, wikke (“morally perverse, evil, wicked”). Possibly from an adjectival use of Old English wi??a (“wizard, sorcerer”), from Proto-Germanic *wikkô (“necromancer, sorcerer”), though the phonology makes this theory difficult to explain.

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?k??d, IPA^(key): /?w?k?d/

Adjective

wicked (comparative wickeder or more wicked, superlative wickedest or most wicked)

1. Evil or mischievous by nature.

   Synonyms: evil, immoral, malevolent, malicious, nefarious, twisted, villainous; see also Thesaurus:evil

2. (slang) Excellent; awesome; masterful.

   Synonyms: awesome, bad, cool, dope, excellent, far out, groovy, hot, rad; see also Thesaurus:excellent

Usage notes

Use of "wicked" as an adjective rather than an adverb is considered an error in the Boston dialect. However, that is not necessarily the case in other New England dialects.

Derived terms

• wickedly
• wickedness
• wicked tongue

Translations

Adverb

wicked (not comparable)

1. (slang, New England, Britain) Very, extremely.

   Synonyms: hella, helluv (both Californian/regional, and both potentially considered mildly vulgar)

Translations

Etymology 2

See wick.

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?kt, IPA^(key): /w?kt/

Verb

wicked

1. simple past tense and past participle of wick

Adjective

wicked (not comparable)

1. Having a wick.

Derived terms

• multiwicked

Etymology 3

See wick.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?k?d/

Adjective

wicked

1. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) Active; brisk.
2. (Britain, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) Infested with maggots.
3. Alternative form of wick, as applying to inanimate objects only.

References

Middle English

Adjective

wicked

1. Alternative form of wikked