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Vice

3 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means immoral or wicked behavior, or a bad habit
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Stage 1 of 3
vitium
Latin · ancient
"a fault, a defect"
a fault, a defect, a flaw
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Stage 2 of 3
vice
Old French · medieval
"a moral failing, a bad habit"
carried into French for a moral failing or bad habit
3
Stage 3 of 3
vice
English · 1200s
"immoral or wicked behavior"
settled as the English word for immoral or wicked behavior
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