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

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
happiness
vice

Descendants

Galician: vizo
Portuguese: viço

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese viço, from Latin vitium[1] (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/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.so/

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

Rhymes: -isu
Hyphenation: vi‧ço

Noun

viço m (plural viços)

luxuriance, lushness
vigour, flushness
Synonym: vigor
(dated) vice
Synonym: vício

References

“viço” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.

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