The story
- Latin · derived fromvīcīnus“neighboring, a neighbor”
- Vulgar Latin · derived from*vīcīnātus
- Old French · derived fromvisné
- English todayvisne
From Old French visné, veisiné, visnet (“neighborhood”), from Vulgar Latin *vīcīnātus, from Latin vīcīnus (“neighboring, a neighbor”). See vicinity.
Words from the same roots
Latinvīcīnus all →
vicine
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.