Vice and Vice President [closed]

The word "vice" is usually used in a negative sense in the meaning of "immoral or wicked behavior". On the other hand we have a commonly used term "vice president" as the second person in a presidency system. As a non-native speaker when I first saw "vice president" I thought that it was something like "king of parties and all kind of entertainments" :). Obviously no one else understands it in this way.

What is the relation between the word "vice" and the term "vice president"?

Solution 1:

The negative "vice" has its roots here:

Middle English, from Old French, from Latin vitium fault, blemish, crime, vice

while

the prefix "vice-" has its roots in the Latin vice in place of

[Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary]