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vicus

noun

vicus is a noun meaning “A small civilian settlement outside a Roman fort” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-C-U-S, and it appears about once in every 44 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vicus is vici.

What does vicus mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A small civilian settlement outside a Roman fort.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of vicus

  • vici plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is vicus?

Vicus appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does vicus come from?

Borrowed from Latin vīcus (“village”). Doublet of wick.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).