Where does “vitieux” come from?

vitieux (Middle French) comes from Old French vicious, from Latin vitiōsus, from Latin vitium, from Proto-Indo-European wi-tio-, from Proto-Indo-European wei — guilt, vice, fault.

vitieux (Middle French): vicious

Definitions

  1. vicious

Ancestry of “vitieux”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchviciousvicious; malicious; defective; not capable of...
2Latinvitiōsusfull of faults or defects; faulty, defective, bad, corrupt
3Latinvitiumflaw, defect, blemish, error, fault; vice; crime
4Proto-Indo-Europeanwi-tio-—
5Proto-Indo-Europeanweiguilt, vice, fault
Every word from Proto-Indo-European wei →Every word from Proto-Indo-European wi-tio- →Every word from Latin vitium →