crimen
English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin crīmen (“verdict; adultery; crime”). Doublet of crime.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɹaɪmən/
Noun
crimen (countable and uncountable, plural crimina)
- (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).
Related terms
- crimen falsi
- crimen injuria
Anagrams
- mincer
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
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkriː.men/, [ˈkriːmɛn]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkri.men/, [ˈkriːmen]
Noun
crīmen n (genitive crīminis); third declension
- A judicial decision, verdict, or judgment.
- An object of reproach, invective.
- A crime, fault, offense
- Synonyms: dēlictum, peccātum, scelus, vitium, noxa, facinus, iniūria, error, culpa, malum, commissum, flāgitium, dēlinquentia, maleficium
- Antonyms: bonum, rēctum, virtūs
- An object representing a crime.
- A cause of a crime; criminal.
- The crime of lewdness; adultery.
- (in respect to the accuser) A charge, accusation, reproach; calumny, slander.
- (in respect to the accused) The fault one is accused of; crime, misdeed, offence, fault.
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | crīmen | crīmina |
| Genitive | crīminis | crīminum |
| Dative | crīminī | crīminibus |
| Accusative | crīmen | crīmina |
| Ablative | crīmine | crīminibus |
| Vocative | crīmen | crīmina |
Derived terms
- crīminālis
- crīminor
- crīminōsus
Related terms
- crīmināliter
- crīminātiō
- crīminātor
- crīminātrix
- crīminō
- crīminōsē
Descendants
- → Albanian: krim
- Aromanian: crimã
- Catalan: crim
- → English: crimen
- Old French: crime
- French: crime
- → Portuguese: crime
- → English: crime
- French: crime
- Norman: crînme
- Italian: crimine
- Romanian: crimă
- Romansch: crim
- Sicilian: crìmini
- → Spanish: crimen
- → Tagalog: krimen
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)
- to reproach a person with..: aliquid alicui crimini dare, vertere
- “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
Anagrams
- Cremni
Spanish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin crīmen (“verdict; crime”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɾimen/ [ˈkɾi.mẽn]
Audio (Colombia) (file) - Rhymes: -imen
- Syllabification: cri‧men
Noun
crimen m (plural crímenes)
- violent crime
- Synonym: delito
Usage notes
- crimen refers to very serious crimes such as murder or assault; delito refers to any violation of the law.
Derived terms
- crimen de honor
- crimen de lesa humanidad
- crimen organizado
Related terms
- criminal
- criminar
Descendants
- → Ilocano: krimen
- → Tagalog: krimen
Further reading
- “crimen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014