Vandal

 

One who willfully defaces or destroys property.

 

From the name of a northern Germanic tribe that

invaded Western Europe in the 4th and 5th

centuries. They sacked Rome in 455.

Till Goths and Vandals, a rude northern race

Did all the matchless monuments deface.   Dryden

From Latin, Vandalus, of Germanic origin

ON Vendill inhabitants of N. Jutland

 

Other words from the same root: vandalism, vandalize, vandalian, vandalistic, vandal booster

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