homicide

See also: homicidé

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French homicide, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin homicīda (“man-slayer”) and homicīdium (“manslaughter”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

homicide (countable and uncountable, plural homicides)

1. (countable, 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 (intentional), 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 (mardaspanutʻyun), սպանություն (hy) (spanutʻyun)
• Asturian: homicidiu m
• Bulgarian: убийство (bg) n (ubijstvo)
• Catalan: homicidi (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 殺人／杀人 (zh) (shārén), 杀人 (zh) (shārén), 他殺／他杀 (zh) (tāshā), 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 (fr) 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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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
• Occitan: omicidi m
• 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／凶手 (zh) (xiōngshǒu), 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 or f (anthropoktónos)
• Hungarian: gyilkos (hu)
• Indonesian: pembunuh (id)
• Italian: (male or female) omicida (it) m or 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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: homicīda f
• Norwegian: drapsmann m, morder m
• Polish: morderca (pl) m, morderczyni (pl) f
• Portuguese: homicida (pt) m or f
• Russian: уби́йца (ru) m or 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 or 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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: ανθρωποκτονία (el) f (anthropoktonía)
• Swedish: mordoffer (sv)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 치사죄 (chisajoe)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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 (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French, from Latin homicidium

Pronunciation

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Noun

homicide m (plural homicides)

1. homicide

Noun

homicide m or 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 Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle French

Alternative forms

• omicide

Noun

homicide m (plural homicides)

1. homicide

Noun

homicide m or f (plural homicides)

1. killer

Adjective

homicide m or f (plural homicides)

1. killer; that kills