Where does “vitiate” come from?
Vitiate comes from Latin vitiatus, past participle of vitio meaning to make faulty, derived from Latin vitium meaning defect or vice.
vitiate (English): to spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value,...
Definitions
- to spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value,...
Ancestry of “vitiate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | vitiatus | damaged; violated, raped |
| 2 | Latin | vitiō | to vitiate, make faulty, spoil, taint, corrupt, damage |
| 3 | Latin | vitium | flaw, defect, blemish, error, fault; vice; crime |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | wi-tio- | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | wei | guilt, vice, fault |
Words derived from “vitiate”