homicide

See also: homicidé

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

homicide (countable and uncountable, plural homicides)

1. (uncountable, crime) 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, 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, 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 (hy) (spanutʿyun)
• Asturian: homicidiu m
• Bulgarian: убийство (bg) n (ubijstvo)
• Catalan: homicidi (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 殺人 (zh), 杀人 (zh) (shārén), 他殺 (zh), 他杀 (zh) (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)
• Hungarian: emberölés (hu)
• Icelandic: manndráp (is) n
• Ido: homocido (io)
• Indonesian: pembunuhan (id)

• 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
• Romanian: omucidere (ro) f, omor (ro) n, asasinat (ro) n, homicid (ro) n
• Russian: уби́йство (ru) n (ubíjstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

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

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

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

a person who kills another

• Armenian: մարդասպան (hy) (mardaspan)
• Bulgarian: убиец (bg) m (ubiec)
• Chinese:

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

• Finnish: tappaja (fi), 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)
• Hungarian: gyilkos (hu)
• Indonesian: pembunuh (id)
• Italian: (male or female) omicida (it) m, f, (male murderer) assassino (it) m, (female murderer) assassina (it) 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: уби́йца (ru) m, f (ubíjca)
• Serbo-Croatian:

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

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

• Slovene: morilec (sl) m, morilka f
• Spanish: homicida (es) m, f, victimario
• 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) f (anthropoktonía)
• Swedish: mordoffer (sv)

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 Wiktionary:Entry layout#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

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin homicidium

Noun

homicide m (plural homicides)

1. homicide

Noun

homicide m, f (plural homicides)

1. killer

Adjective

homicide (plural homicides)

1. killer; that kills

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

Further reading

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

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Middle French

Alternative forms

• omicide

Noun

homicide m (plural homicides)

1. homicide

Noun

homicide m, f (plural homicides)

1. killer

Adjective

homicide m, f (plural homicides)

1. killer; that kills