Etymology

voyeuristic

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Today it means: Of, relating to, or derived from voyeurism or a voyeur. Full definition →

English voyeur ← French voyeur ← Middle 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. Englishvoyeur
  10. English todayvoyeuristic

From voyeur + -istic.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.