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Vice comes from Middle English vice ‘a bad habit or tendency that one has’, and goes back to Latin vitium ‘fault or blemish’.

1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvitium¹‘fault or blemish’
2. Old Frenchc. 842–1400vice¹
3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500vice¹‘a bad habit or tendency that one has’
4. Englishearliest quotation 1839vice¹

1. ¹ Wiktionary, English vice
2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1839, Scholefield v. Robb; cited in Gilligan, Brenda: “So a horse with say, navicular disease, making him…”.