manslaughter

English

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Etymology

From Middle English manslaȝter, manslauter, equivalent to man +‎ slaughter, or taken as an adaptation of Old English mannslieht, mannsleaht (“homicide”), from mann (“man, person”) +‎ slieht, sleaht (“stroke, slaying”), see manslaught. Cognate with Scots manslauchter (“homicide”).

Noun

manslaughter (plural manslaughters)

1. An act of killing a human being unlawfully, but not wilfully (as opposed to murder).

Related terms

• self-slaughter

Translations

act of killing unlawfully, but not wilfully

• Catalan: homicidi involuntari (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 誤殺 (cmn), 误杀 (cmn) (wùshā)

• Faroese: manndráp (fo) n
• Finnish: kuolemantuottamus (fi); tappo (fi) (which is translated into in a legal context)
• French: homicide involontaire (fr) m
• German: Totschlag (de) m
• Greek: ανθρωποκτονία (el) (anthropoktonía) f
• Italian: omicidio colposo (it) m

• Japanese: 過失致死 (ja) (かしつちし, kashitsuchishi), 過失致死罪 (ja) (かしつちしざい, kashitsuchishizai)
• Russian: непредумышленное убийство (ru) (nepredumýšlennoje ubíjstvo) n
• Serbo-Croatian: ubojstvo iz nehaja (sh) n
• Spanish: homicidio (es) m
• Swedish: dråp (sv) n (general), vållande till annans död n (Sweden Swedish), dödsvållande (sv) n (Finland Swedish)
• Telugu: నరహత్య (te) (narahatya)
• Vietnamese: tội giết người (vi), tội ngộ sát (vi)

Anagrams

• slaughterman