crimen
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from Latin crīmen (“verdict; adultery; crime”). Doublet of crime.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
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).
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkriː.men/, [ˈkriːmɛn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkri.men/, [ˈkriːmen]
Noun[edit]
crīmen n (genitive crīminis); third declension
- A judicial decision, verdict, or judgment.
- An object of reproach, invective.
- A crime, fault, offense
- 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[edit]
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 |
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References[edit]
- “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)
- 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
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 110
Anagrams[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin crīmen (“verdict; crime”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
crimen m (plural crímenes)
Usage notes[edit]
- crimen refers to very serious crimes such as murder or assault; delito refers to any violation of the law.
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Further reading[edit]
- “crimen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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