| a combining form meaning “deputy,” used in the formation of compound words, usually titles of officials who serve in the absence of the official denoted by the base word: viceroy; vice-chancellor. |
| vice- pref. One who acts in the place of another; deputy: vice-chairman. [Middle English, from Old French vis-, vice-, from Late Latin vice-, from Latin vice, ablative of *vix, change; see weik-2 in Indo-European roots.] |
