crimen

English

Borrowed from Latin crīmen (“verdict; adultery; crime”). Doublet of crime.

crimen (uncountable)

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(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).

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).

crīmen n (genitive crīminis); third declension

A judicial decision, verdict, or judgment.
An object of reproach, invective.
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.

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

“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^[1], 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

Borrowed from Latin crīmen (“verdict; crime”)^[1], from Proto-Italic *kreimen, from Proto-Indo-European *kréymn̥, from *krey- (“sieve”) + *-mn̥.

crimen m (plural crímenes)