Etymology

voyeur

vo·yeur
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Today it means: A person who derives sexual pleasure from observing other people engaging in some intimate or sexual activity; one who engages in voyeurism. Full definition →

French voyeur ← Middle French veoir ← Old French veoir
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*weyd-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*widéh₁yeti
  3. Proto-Italic*widēō
  4. Latinvideō
  5. Old Frenchveoir
  6. Middle Frenchveoir
  7. Frenchvoir
  8. Frenchvoyeur
  9. English todayvoyeur

Borrowed from French voyeur, from voir (“to see”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.