The story
- Latin · derived fromvīcus“street”
- English todayvicambulist
From Latin vīcus (“street”) + -ambulist (“walker”). Later popularized by its inclusion in the Oxford English Dictionary and thence various "rare word" lists.
Words from the same roots
Latinvicus all →
wiganwickvicomagistervicus-wich
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.