homicide

English

Etymology

From Old French homicide, from Latin homicīda (“man-slayer”) and homicīdium (“manslaughter”). Equivalent to +‎ -cide.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒmɪsaɪd/
• (US) enPR: hämʹə-sīd, IPA^(key): /ˈhɑməsaɪd/ or enPR: hōʹmə-sīd, IPA^(key): /ˈhoʊməsaɪd/

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.
   • 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, Ellen Perry Berkeley, Keith's People (ISBN 1930859449), page 58:

     We don't even know the woman was a homicide. Didn't they say it was possible they both jumped?

   • 2004, Jon Talton, Dry Heat (ISBN 0312333854), page 40:

     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.

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
• culpable homicide

Translations

the killing of one person by another

• Armenian: մարդասպանություն (mardaspanutʿyun), սպանություն (spanutʿyun)
• Asturian: homicidiu m
• Catalan: homicidi m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 殺人 (zh), 杀人 (shārén), 他殺 (zh), 他杀 (tāshā)

• Dutch: doodslag (nl) m (unintentional), moord (nl) m (intentional)
• Esperanto: murdo (murder)
• Faroese: dráp n, morð n
• Finnish: (unintentional) tappo (fi), (premeditated) murha (fi)
• French: homicide (fr) m (murder), meurtre (fr) m (murder), assassinat (fr) m (murder), (manslaughter) homicide involontaire m
• Galician: homicidio (gl) m
• German: Mord (de) m (intentional), Totschlag (de) m (manslaughter), Tötungsdelikt (de) m (law term)
• Greek: ανθρωποκτονία (el) f (anthropoktonía)
• Icelandic: manndráp (is) n
• Italian: omicidio (it) m, (manslaughter) omicidio colposo m, (murder) omicidio premeditato m, (murder) assassinio (it) m

• Japanese: 殺人 (ja) (さつじん, satsujin)
• Korean: 살인 (ko) (sar-in) (殺人 (ko))
• Latin: homicīdium n
• Latvian: slepkavība f
• Norwegian: drap n
• Polish: zabójstwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: homicídio (pt) m
• Russian: убийство (ru) n (ubíjstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: убиство n, убоство n, уморство n, умор m

  Roman: ubistvo (sh) n, ùbōjstvo n, umórstvo n, umor m

• Slovene: umor (sl)
• Spanish: homicidio m
• Swedish: mord (sv)

a person who kills another

• Armenian: մարդասպան (mardaspan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 兇手 (zh), 凶手 (zh) (xiōngshǒu)

• Finnish: tappaja, murhaaja (fi)
• French: (murderer) homicide (fr) m, (male murderer) meutrier m, (female murderer) meutrière f, (murderer) assassin (fr)
• German: Mörder (de) m
• Greek: ανθρωποκτόνος (el) m, f (anthropoktónos)
• Italian: (male or female) omicida (it) m, f, (male murderer) assassino (it) m, (female murderer) assassina f
• Japanese: 人殺し (ひとごろし, hitogoroshi), 殺人者 (さつじんしゃ, satsujinsha)
• Latin: homicīda f

• Norwegian: drapsmann m, morder m
• Polish: morderca (pl) m, morderczyni (pl) f
• Portuguese: homicida (pt) m, f
• Russian: убийца (ru) m, f (ubíjca)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: убица m (Bosnian, Serbian), убојица m (Croatian)

  Roman: ubica m (Bosnian, Serbian), ubojica m (Croatian)

• Slovene: morilec (sl) m, morilka f
• Spanish: homicida m, f
• Swedish: mördare (sv)

police jargon: a victim of homicide

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 受害者 (zh) (shòuhàizhě)

• Finnish: murhattu, surmattu, tapettu

• Greek: ανθρωποκτονία (el) f (anthropoktonía)
• Swedish: mordoffer

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 치사죄 (chisajoe)

• Latin: ^{(please verify)} homicidium n

See also

• filicide
• familicide
• feticide
• fratricide
• genocide
• infanticide
• mariticide
• matricide
• parricide
• patricide
• populicide
• prolicide
• regicide
• sororicide
• suicide
• unlawful death
• 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

External links

• “homicide” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).