homicide

English

Etymology

From Latin homicīda (“man-slayer”) and homicīdium (“manslaughter”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈhɒmɪsaɪd/, SAMPA: /"hQmIsaId/
• (US) enPR: hämʹə-sīd, IPA: /ˈhɑməsaɪd/, SAMPA: /"hAm@saId/ or enPR: hōʹmə-sīd, IPA: /ˈhoʊməsaɪd/, SAMPA: /"hoUm@saId/

Noun

Wikipedia homicide (plural homicides)

1. (uncountable) The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.
2. (countable) A person who kills another.
3. (countable, US, police jargon) A victim of homicide; a person who has been unlawfully killed by someone else.

Quotations

• 1996, A J Holt, Watch Me [1]:

  “She was a hippie kid. How hard would you work a case like that?”

  “As hard as anyone else,” said Goddard. There was an irritated note in his voice. “She was a homicide. She got what every homicide investigation gets.”

• 2003: We don't even know the woman was a homicide. Didn't they say it was possible they both jumped? —Ellen Perry Berkeley, Keith's People ISBN 1930859449 p. 58
• 2004: The medical examiner was behind on autopsies and cranky, so we didn't even know if the old guy in the pool was a homicide. —Jon Talton, Dry Heat ISBN 0312333854 p. 40

Synonyms

• (unlawful killing of a person by another): assassination, killing, first-degree murder (US; intentional), manslaughter (unintentional), murder (intentional), second-degree murder (US; unintentional)
• (person who unlawfully kills another person): assassin, killer, man-slayer, murderer
• (victim of homicide): murder victim

Derived terms

• homicidal

Translations

the killing of one person by another

Armenian: մարդասպանություն (hy) (mardasapanut’yun), սպանություն (hy) (spanut’yun) Chinese: Mandarin: 殺人 (zh), 杀人 (zh) (shārén) Croatian: ùbōjstvo (hr) n., umórstvo (hr) n. Esperanto: homomortigo (eo) (unintentional), murdo (eo) (murder) Faroese: dráp (fo) n., morð (fo) n. Finnish: tappo (unintentional), murha (premeditated) French: homicide m. (murder), meurtre m. (murder), assassinat m. (murder), homicide involontaire m. (manslaughter) German: Mord (de) m. Greek: ανθρωποκτονία (el) (anthropoktonía) f.

Icelandic: manndráp (is) n. Italian: omicidio m., omicidio colposo m. (manslaughter), omicidio premeditato m. (murder), assassinio m. (murder) Japanese: 殺人 (satsujin) Latin: homicīdium (la) n. Norwegian: drap (no) n. Polish: zabójstwo (pl) n. Portuguese: homicídio (pt) m. Russian: убийство (ru) (ubíjstvo) n. Serbian: ubistvo (sr), umor (sr) Slovene: umor (sl) Spanish: homicidio (es) m. Swedish: mord (sv)

a person who kills another

Armenian: մարդասպան (hy) (mardaspan) Chinese: Mandarin: 凶手 (zh) (xiōngshǒu) Croatian: ùbojica (hr) m. Finnish: tappaja (fi), murhaaja (fi) French: homicide m. (murderer), meutrier m. (male murderer), meutrière f. (female murderer), assassin (murderer) German: Mörder (de) m. Greek: ανθρωποκτόνος (el) (anthropoktónos) m. and f. Italian: omicida m. and f. (male or female), assassino m. (male murderer), assassina f. (female murderer)

Japanese: 殺人 (satsujin) Latin: homicīda (la) f. Norwegian: drapsmann m., morder m. Polish: morderca (pl) m., morderczyni (pl) f. Portuguese: homicida (pt) m. and f. Russian: убийца (ubíjca) m. or f. Serbian: ubica (sr) Slovene: morilec m., morilka f. Spanish: homicida (es) m. and f. Swedish: mördare (sv)

police jargon: a victim of homicide

Chinese: Mandarin: 受害者 (zh) (shòuhàizhě) Finnish: murhattu (fi), surmattu (fi), tapettu (fi)

Greek: ανθρωποκτονία (el) (anthropoktonía) f. Swedish: mordoffer (sv)

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Korean: Hangul: 치사죄 Romaja: chisajoe

Latin: homicidium n.

See also

• filicide
• genocide
• infanticide
• matricide
• patricide
• regicide
• suicide
• uxoricide

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French

Wikipedia ^fr

Noun

homicide m. (plural homicides)

1. homicide

Verb

homicide

1. first-person singular present indicative of homicider
2. third-person singular present indicative of homicider
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of homicider
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of homicider
5. second-person singular imperative of homicider