crimen

English

Etymology

Borrowed 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) IPA^(key): /ˈkriː.men/, [ˈkriː.mɛn]

Noun

crīmen n (genitive crīminis); third declension

1. A judicial decision, verdict, or judgment.
2. An object of reproach, invective.
3. An object representing a crime.
4. A cause of a crime; criminal.
5. The crime of lewdness; adultery.
6. (in respect to the accuser) A charge, accusation, reproach; calumny, slander.
7. (in respect to the accused) The fault one is accused of; crime, misdeed, offence, fault.

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

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

• Aromanian: crimã
• Catalan: crim
• English: crime
• French: crime
• Norman: crînme
• Italian: crimine
• Portuguese: crime
• Romanian: crimă
• Spanish: crimen

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

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾimen/, [ˈkɾimẽn]
• Hyphenation: cri‧men

Noun

crimen m (plural crímenes)

1. violent crime (for non-violent crimes use delito)

Synonyms

• delito m

Derived terms

• crimen organizado

Related terms

• criminal
• criminar