crimen

English

Etymology

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

Noun

crimen (uncountable)

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).

Anagrams

• mincer

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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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkriː.men/, [ˈkriːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkri.men/, [ˈkriːmen]

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, culpa, malum

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

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
  • → English: crime
• Norman: crînme
• Italian: crimine
• Portuguese: crime
• Romanian: crimă
• Romansch: crim
• → 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^[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

Anagrams

• Cremni

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Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin crīmen (“verdict; crime”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾimen/ [ˈkɾi.mẽn]
• Hyphenation: cri‧men

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Noun

crimen m (plural crímenes)

1. 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 lesa humanidad
• crimen organizado

Related terms

• criminal
• criminar

Descendants

• → Tagalog: krimen

Further reading

• “crimen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16