crime

crime

English

Etymology

From Middle English cryme, crime, from Old French crime, crimne, from Latin crīmen. Displaced native Old English firen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹaɪm/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -aɪm

Noun

crime (countable and uncountable, plural crimes)

1. (countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law.
2. (countable) Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity.
   • 1687 (date written)​, Alexander Pope, “Ode for Musick on St. Cecilia’s Day”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], OCLC 43265629, canto VI, page 376:

     No crime was thine, if 'tis no crime to love.

3. (countable, obsolete) That which occasions crime.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, stanza 46:

     the tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall

4. (uncountable) Criminal acts collectively.

   Synonyms: criminality, delinquency

5. (uncountable) The habit or practice of committing crimes.

   Crime doesn’t pay.

Hyponyms

• crime against humanity
• crime against nature
• crime of passion
• criminal act
• felony
• hate crime
• high crime
• international crime
• misdemeanor, misdemeanour
• organised crime, organized crime
• petty crime
• regulatory offence
• sexual offence
• summary crime
• war crime
• white collar crime

 

Derived terms

• capital crime
• consensual crime
• crime buster
• crimebuster
• crime-buster
• crime car
• crime doesn't pay
• crime-fighter
• crime fighter
• crime-free, crimefree
• crime index
• crime lord
• crime mapping
• crime passionel
• crime rate
• crime-ridden, crimeridden
• crime scene
• crime science
• crime scientist
• crimestopper
• crime wave
• criminal
• criminal law
• criminally
• criminal record
• criminological
• criminologically
• criminologist
• criminology
• decriminalisation, decriminalization
• decriminalise, decriminalize
• e-crime
• enviro-crime
• hate-crime
• he who said the rhyme did the crime
• knife crime
• no-crime
• no crime
• noncriminal
• organizational crime
• partner in crime
• perfect crime
• pre-crime
• recriminalisation, recriminalization
• recriminalise, recriminalize
• stranger crime
• street crime
• tough on crime
• true crime
• victimless crime
• white-collar crime
• youth crime

 

Collocations

Collocations

• organized crime
• brutal crime
• terrible crime
• horrible crime
• heinous crime
• horrendous crime
• hideous crime
• financial crime
• sexual crime
• international crime

Translations

specific act committed in violation of the law

Afrikaans: misdryf, misdaad (af) Albanian: krim (sq) m Amharic: ወንጀል (wänǧäl) Arabic: جَرِيمَة‎ (ar) f (jarīma), جِنَايَة‎ (ar) f (jināya) Aragonese: please add this translation if you can Armenian: հանցանք (hy) (hancʿankʿ), հանցագործություն (hy) (hancʿagorcutʿyun) Aromanian: please add this translation if you can Assamese: অপৰাধ (oporadh) Asturian: delitu m Azerbaijani: cinayət (az) Bashkir: енәйәт (yenäyät) Basque: delitua Belarusian: злачы́нства n (zlačýnstva), злачы́н m (zlačýn) Bengali: অপরাধ (bn) (ôpôradhô) Breton: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: престъпле́ние (bg) n (prestǎplénie) Burmese: ပြစ်မှု (my) (prachmu.) Catalan: crim (ca) m, delicte (ca) m Cherokee: ᎠᏍᎦᏅᏨ (asganvtsv) Chinese: Mandarin: 罪 (zh) (zuì), 罪行 (zh) (zuìxíng), 刑事犯罪 (xíngshì fànzuì), 犯罪 (zh) (fànzuì) Corsican: please add this translation if you can Czech: zločin (cs) m, trestný čin (cs) m Danish: forbrydelse (da) c Dutch: misdaad (nl) f Esperanto: krimo Estonian: kuritegu Faroese: brotsgerð f Finnish: rikos (fi) French: délit (fr) m(max 10 years imprisonment according to law) crime (fr) m (15 years and more) (nothing strictly between 10 and 15) Friulian: criminâl m Galician: delito m, malfeito m Georgian: დანაშაული (današauli) German: Straftat (de) f Greek: έγκλημα (el) n (égklima), αδίκημα (el) n (adíkima) (law) Gujarati: અપરાધ n (aparādh) Hausa: please add this translation if you can Hawaiian: kalaima Hebrew: פֶּשַׁע‎ (he) m (pésha') Higaonon: sala Hindi: अपराध (hi) m (aprādh), जुर्म (hi) m (jurm) Hungarian: bűntény (hu), bűntett (hu), bűncselekmény (hu) Icelandic: glæpur (is) m Ido: krimino (io) Igbo: please add this translation if you can Indonesian: kejahatan (id), pelanggaran (id), pelanggaran hukum Interlingua: crimine Irish: coir (ga) f, cion m Italian: crimine (it) m, delitto (it) m, reato (it) m Japanese: 犯罪 (ja) (はんざい, hanzai), 罪 (ja) (つみ, tsumi), 犯行 (ja) (はんこう, hankō) Javanese: angkara Kannada: ಅಪರಾಧ (kn) (aparādha), ತಕ್ಸೀರು (kn) (taksīru) Kazakh: қылмыс (kk) (qylmys) Khmer: បទឧក្រិដ្ឋ (bɑt ʼokkrət), ទោស (km) (tooh) Korean: 범죄(犯罪) (ko) (beomjoe), 죄(罪) (ko) (joe), 범행(犯行) (ko) (beomhaeng) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: sûc (ku), cînayet (ku), tawan (ku) Kyrgyz: кылмыш (ky) (kılmış) Ladin: reat m Lao: ອາດຊະຍາກຳ (ʼāt sa nyā kam), ກຳມະໂທດ (kam ma thōt) Latin: scelus n, facinus n, maleficium n Latvian: noziegšanās m, noziegums m Lithuanian: nusikaltimas (lt) m, nusižengimas m Luxembourgish: Verbriechen Macedonian: злосторство n (zlostorstvo), злодело n (zlodelo), недело m (nedelo) Malay: jenayah (ms) Malayalam: കുറ്റം (ml) (kuṟṟaṃ), കുറ്റകൃത്യം (kuṟṟakr̥tyaṃ) Maltese: reat Manx: loght m Maori: hara, māhie, taihara Marathi: बदकर्म m (badkarma) Mirandese: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: Cyrillic: гэмт хэрэг (mn) (gemt xereg) Mongolian: ᠭᠡᠮᠲᠦ ᠬᠡᠷᠡᠭ (mn) (gemtü kereg) Nepali: अपराध (ne) (aparādh) Norman: crînme m Norwegian: Bokmål: forbrytelse (no) m Occitan: delicte (oc) m Old English: firen f Oriya: ଅପରାଧ (ôpôradhô) Oromo: yakka Pashto: جنايت‎ (ps) m (jenāyat) Persian: جرم‎ (fa) (jorm), بزه‎ (fa) (bezeh), جنایت‎ (fa) (jenâyat) Plautdietsch: Vebräakjen n Polish: przestępstwo (pl) n, zbrodnia (pl) f Portuguese: crime (pt) m Punjabi: ਜੁਰਮ (pa) (juram), ਅਪਰਾਧ (pa) (aparādh) Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can Romanian: infracțiune (ro), crimă (ro) f, fapt penal (ro) n Romansch: crim m Russian: преступле́ние (ru) n (prestuplénije), злодея́ние (ru) n (zlodejánije), злоде́йство (ru) n (zlodéjstvo) Sanskrit: अकृत्य (sa) n (akṛtya), एनस् (sa) n (enas) Sardinian: please add this translation if you can Scots: crime, wrang-daein Scottish Gaelic: eucoir f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: зло̀чин m Roman: zlòčin (sh) m Sicilian: please add this translation if you can Sindhi: please add this translation if you can Sinhalese: අපරාධය (aparādhaya) Slovak: zločin m Slovene: zločin (sl) m Somali: please add this translation if you can Spanish: delito (es) m, crimen (es) m Swahili: uhalifu (sw) class u, jinai (sw) class ma Swedish: brott (sv) n Tagalog: krimen Tajik: ҷиноят (jinoyat), ҷурм (jurm) Tamil: குற்றம் (ta) (kuṟṟam) Tatar: җинаять (tt) (cinayat’) Telugu: నేరము (te) (nēramu) Thai: อาชญากรรม (th) (àat-yaa-gam) Tibetan: ཉེས་པ (nyes pa) Tigrinya: ወንጀል (wänǧäl), ገበን (gäbän) Turkish: suç (tr), cinayet (tr) Turkmen: jenaýat (tk) Tuvan: кем-херек (kem-xerek) Ukrainian: зло́чин (uk) m (zlóčyn) Urdu: جُرْم‎ m (jurm), اَپْرادھ‎ m (aprādh), جِنایَت‎ f (jināyat) Uyghur: جىنايەت‎ (jinayet) Uzbek: jinoyat (uz) Vietnamese: tội ác (vi) (罪惡), tội phạm (vi) (罪犯) Volapük: please add this translation if you can Walloon: crime (wa) m Welsh: trosedd (cy) m West Frisian: misdied White Hmong: txhaum Wolof: please add this translation if you can Xhosa: please add this translation if you can Yiddish: פֿאַרברעך‎ n (farbrekh), פֿאַרברעכן‎ n (farbrekhn) Yoruba: please add this translation if you can Zazaki: cırm, cınayet Zulu: iseleleso

practice or habit of committing crimes

Arabic: جَرِيمَة‎ (ar) f (jarīma) Armenian: հանցավորություն (hy) (hancʿavorutʿyun) Catalan: crim (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 罪行 (zh) (zuìxíng) Czech: zločinnost f Danish: kriminalitet c Dutch: misdaad (nl) f Esperanto: krimado Estonian: kuritegevus Finnish: rikollisuus (fi), rikos (fi) French: délit (fr) m(under 10 years imprisonment according to law) crime (fr) m (10 years and more) German: Verbrechen (de) n Greek: έγκλημα (el) n (égklima) Hebrew: פֶּשַׁע‎ (he) m (pésha') Hungarian: bűnözés (hu) Italian: criminalità (it) f Japanese: 犯罪 (ja) (はんざい, hanzai), 罪 (ja) (つみ, tsumi) Korean: 범죄(犯罪) (ko) (beomjoe) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: جەریمە‎ (ku) (cerîme) Macedonian: злосторство n (zlostorstvo) Maltese: kriminalità f Norman: crînme m Norwegian: Bokmål: kriminalitet (no) m Portuguese: crime (pt) m, criminalidade (pt) f Romanian: criminalitate (ro) f Russian: преступле́ние (ru) n (prestuplénije), престу́пность (ru) n (prestúpnostʹ), кримина́л (ru) m (kriminál) Scottish Gaelic: eucoireachd f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: зло̀чин m Roman: zlòčin (sh) m Slovene: zločin (sl) m Spanish: delincuencia (es) f Swedish: brottslighet (sv) c

collective criminal acts

Finnish: rikollisuus (fi) German: Kriminalität (de) f Greek: εγκληματικότητα (el) f (egklimatikótita) Romanian: delicvență (ro) f Russian: кримина́л (ru) m (kriminál) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: кримѝна̄л m Roman: krimìnāl (sh) m Spanish: delincuencia (es) f, criminalidad f Swedish: brottslighet (sv) c, kriminalitet (sv) c

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French: délit (fr) m(under 10 years imprisonment according to law) crime (fr) m (10 years and more) (1, 2) Indonesian: (please verify) kejahatan (id) Lithuanian: (please verify) nusikaltimas (lt) m Malayalam: (please verify) കുറ്റം (ml) (kuṟṟaṃ), (please verify) കുറ്റകൃത്യം (kuṟṟakr̥tyaṃ) Manchu: (please verify) weile (weile) Persian: (please verify) بزه‎ (fa) (bezeh), (please verify) جرم‎ (fa) (jorm) Romanian: (please verify) infracțiune (ro) f, (please verify) delict (ro) n Telugu: (please verify) నేరప్రవృత్తి (nērapravr̥tti) Turkish: (please verify) suç (tr)

References

• crime on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

crime (third-person singular simple present crimes, present participle criming, simple past and past participle crimed)

1. (UK, military, transitive) To subject to disciplinary punishment.
   • 1846, John Mercier McMullen, Camp and Barrack-room, Or, The British Army as it is (page 298)

     Nevertheless, in the course of a few days he is again intoxicated, creates disturbance in his quarters, is confined by his sergeant, crimed, and brought before the commanding officer […]

2. (nonce word) To commit crime.
   • 1987, Robert Sampson, Yesterday's Faces: From the Dark Side, →ISBN, page 61:

     If, during the 1920s, the master criminal was a gamester, criming for self expression, during the 1930s he performed in other ways for other purposes.

See also

• delictual
• felony
• offence
• sin
• administrative infraction (less serious violation of the law)

Anagrams

• REMIC, merci

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Asturian

Noun

crime m (plural crímenes)

1. murder
2. crime

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French

Etymology

From Old French crimne, borrowed from Latin crīmen, from Proto-Italic *kreimen, from Proto-Indo-European *kréymn̥, from *krey- (“sieve”) + *-mn̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁim/

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  (file)

• Rhymes: -im

Noun

crime m (plural crimes)

1. a category of severe infractions within French law, with the strongest of penalties; a felony. (10 years and more according to law)

   Le meurtre, la trahison, ces sont les crimes punissable par la loi d'une peine lourde.

Derived terms

• crime contre l'humanité
• crime de guerre
• crime d'honneur
• crime passionnel
• le crime ne paie pas

 

Related terms

• criminalité
• criminel
• criminogène
• criminologie

See also

• délit

Further reading

• “crime”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• cimer
• merci

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin crīmen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkri.me/
• Rhymes: -ime
• Hyphenation: crì‧me

Noun

crime m (plural crimi)

1. (literary, rare) crime

   Synonyms: crimine, delitto

Related terms

• crimine

Further reading

• crime in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• cremi, merci

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Middle English

Noun

crime

1. Alternative form of cryme

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French crime, from Latin crīmen.[1][2]

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾĩ.mi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾĩ.mi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾi.me/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾi.m(ɨ)/

• Hyphenation: cri‧me

Noun

crime m (plural crimes)

1. crime

   O ladrão cometeu um crime horrível.

   The thief committed a terrible crime.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:crime.

Related terms

• criminal
• criminoso

References

1. “crime” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
2. “crime” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkrime]

Noun

crime f

1. inflection of crimă:
   1. indefinite plural
   2. indefinite genitive/dative singular