viço

See also: vico and viĉo

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin vitium, from Proto-Indo-European *wi-tio-, from *wei (“guilt, vice, fault”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈβi.t͡so/

Noun

viço m

1. delight, pleasure
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 357 (facsimile):

     orto dos uiços do parayſo

     garden of the delights of Paradise

2. happiness
3. vice

Descendants

• Galician: vizo
• Portuguese: viço

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese viço, from Latin vitium (this form possibly semi-learned; compare the doublet vezo), from Proto-Indo-European *wi-tio-, from *wei (“guilt, vice, fault”). Also doublet of vício.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.su/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.su/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.so/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.su/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.su/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.su/

• Rhymes: -isu
• Hyphenation: vi‧ço

Noun

viço m (plural viços)

1. luxuriance, lushness
2. vigour, flushness

   Synonym: vigor

3. (dated) vice

   Synonym: vício