Etymology

victimize

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Today it means: To make (someone) a victim or sacrifice. Full definition →

English victim ← Middle French victime ← Latin victima
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*weyk-
  2. Latinvictima
  3. Middle Frenchvictime
  4. Englishvictim
  5. English todayvictimize

From victim + -ize.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.