crimination

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *krey-

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *kréymn̥

Proto-Italic *kreimə

Latin crīmen

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin crīminor

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin criminatio, criminationisbor.

English crimination

Borrowed from Latin criminatio, criminationis.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌkɹɪmɪˈneɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

crimination (countable and uncountable, plural criminations)

1. An accusation of wrongdoing, a recrimination
   • 1837, William Hickling Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella

     […] and when the ambassadors, after a fruitless attempt at negotiation, which evaporated in mutual crimination and recrimination, set out on their return to Aragon, they were twice detained, […]

Related terms

• criminate

Translations

accusation of wrongdoing

• Bulgarian: обвинение (bg) n (obvinenie), осъждане (bg) n (osăždane)
• Finnish: syytös (fi)
• French: incrimination (fr) f
• Polish: inkryminacja (pl) f
• Russian: обвине́ние (ru) n (obvinénije)