crimen

English

Etymology

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value). Doublet of crime.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɹaɪmən/

Noun

crimen (countable and uncountable, plural crimina)

  1. (religion) An impediment to marriage in the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church, preventing the marriage of people who had murdered an existing spouse in order to remarry (even without committing adultery).

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kreimen, from Proto-Indo-European *kréymn̥, from *krey- (sieve) + *-mn̥, equivalent to cernō (sieve) + -men (noun-forming suffix). Compare also Ancient Greek κρῖμα (krîma).

Pronunciation

Noun

crīmen n (genitive crīminis); third declension

  1. A judicial decision, verdict, or judgment.
  2. An object of reproach, invective.
  3. A crime, fault, offense
    Synonyms: dēlictum, peccātum, scelus, vitium, noxa, facinus, iniūria, error, culpa, malum, commissum, flāgitium, dēlinquentia, maleficium
    Antonyms: bonum, rēctum, virtūs
  4. An object representing a crime.
  5. A cause of a crime; criminal.
  6. The crime of lewdness; adultery.
  7. (in respect to the accuser) A charge, accusation, reproach; calumny, slander.
  8. (in respect to the accused) The fault one is accused of; crime, misdeed, offence, fault.

Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Albanian: krim
  • Aromanian: crimã
  • Catalan: crim
  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • Old French: crime
  • Norman: crînme
  • Italian: crimine
  • Romanian: crimă
  • Romansch: crim
  • Sicilian: crìmini
  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

References

  • crimen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • crimen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • crimen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to reproach a person with..: aliquid alicui crimini dare, vertere
    • to refute charges: crimina diluere, dissolvere
    • to reproach, blame a person for..: aliquid alicui crimini dare, vitio vertere (Verr. 5. 50)
  • crimen”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • crimen”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Spanish

Etymology

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɾimen/ [ˈkɾi.mẽn]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -imen
  • Syllabification: cri‧men

Noun

crimen m (plural crímenes)

  1. violent crime
    Synonym: delito

Usage notes

  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) refers to very serious crimes such as murder or assault; delito refers to any violation of the law.

Derived terms

Descendants

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