vicious

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English word vicious comes from Proto-Indo-European *wi-tio-, Portuguese -oso (-ous, -y.)

*wi-tio- (Proto-Indo-European)

-oso (Portuguese)

-ous, -y.

vitium (Latin)

Crime. Fault, defect, blemish, error. Vice.

viço (Portuguese)

(dated) vice. Luxuriance, lushness. Vigour, flushness.

Full of faults or defects; faulty, defective, bad, corrupt. Morally faulty, wicked, depraved, vicious.

vicious (Old French)

Defective; not capable of functioning. Vicious; malicious.

vicious (Anglo-Norman)

vicious (English)

(archaic) Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.. Savage and aggressive.. Violent, destructive and cruel.

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