![]() The root is Latin’s vitium, a “fault,” “defect,” or “offense,” source of the verb vitiate. This vice, and its adjective, vicious, are not related. ![]() Others, meanwhile, think Carly Fiorina will bring out Trump’s own vices – and viciously bring it to the frontrunner. All of these words feature, at root, Latin’s vicis.Īfter Cruz made news with his pick for Number Two, many, like former Speaker John Boehner, have attacked Cruz’ vices. The vicissitudes of life are its constant and unpredictable changes. Parents live vicariously through their children’s endeavors. Latin’s vice is a form (the ablative case) of the noun vicis, which meant a “change,” “turn,” “succession,” or “place,” hence vice’s “in place of.” The word also appears in the adverbial phrase vice versa, a construction (the ablative absolute) literally meaning “the place having been turned.”Ī vicar originally served in place of a parish priest. Old French at one point rendered Latin’s vice as vis-, which survives in English’s phonetically challenging viscount. A vice-viceroy was an official serving in place of the viceroy, who served in place of the monarch (French roi, “king”) in a colony, for instance. Good thing we don’t call them “vice-teachers.”) The prefix proliferated in the 17th and 18th centuries, titling the likes of vice-apostle, vice-butler, vice-Christ, vice-husband, and vice-viceroy. (And you thought substitute teachers had it bad. The earliest vice the OED finds is vice-collector, which it dates to 1497. A screenshot of the first appearance of “Vice President” in the U.S. The abbreviation V.P. is cited by 1887, the colloquial veep by 1949. Constitution’s use of Vice President may obscure vice’s original grammatical role. This vice- technically functions as a prefix the U.S. ![]() The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED) first cites vice-president in 1574, when “Sergius the Vice-president of Asia” must have really balanced out the ticket. ![]() The etymology of the title bears out the importance of the vice presidency: in Latin, vice means “in place of” or “in succession to.” For example, when the president sends the second-in-command to an important state function, the vice president is standing in place of – representing – the president at the event. We often poke fun of the second-place office, but the vice presidency is an important one: It’s a heartbeat away from the presidency, as candidates consider when vetting their running mates. But there’s one big question whose answer I’d really like to know: What is the vice in vice president? The many virtues of vice In what many are calling a last-ditch effort to shake up the campaign, this week Ted Cruz announced former Republican presidential candidate and Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina as his vice presidential nominee should he win his party’s nomination.įor many, Cruz’s pick is raising lots of questions, given that it’s now mathematically impossible for him to win the nomination outright.
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