vice
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[edit] Etymology 1
From Latin vitium (“‘fault or blemish’”).
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vice (plural vices)
- A bad habit.
- Smoking is a vice, not a virtue.
- (law) prostitution
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- (bad habit): virtue
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bad habit
legal term for prostitution
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[edit] Etymology 2
From French vis (“‘screw, winding stairs’”), from Old French vis, viz, from Latin vitis (“‘vine’”); probably akin to English withy.
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- vise (US)
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vice (plural vices)
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screw apparatus
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[edit] Etymology 3
From Latin vice, "in place of", ablative form of vicis.
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vice (no comparative or superlative)
- in place of; subordinate to; designating a person below another in rank
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vice
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vice
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vice
[edit] Italian
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vice m. and f. inv.
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vice
- ablative singular of vicis
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vice
- in place of, subordinate to
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- English: vice, as in "vice president", "vice admiral"
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vice
- purgatory (stage of the afterlife in Catholic theology)
This Slovene entry was created from the translations listed at purgatory. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see vice in the Slovene Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) August 2009
