indict

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman enditer, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French enditer, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin indicto, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin in- + dictare.

The seemingly irregular pronunciation, compared with other English words also descending from Latin dicto, arose due to being borrowed from an Old French form (instead of more directly from Latin as was the case with the other descendants) which lost its "c" (yielding the base form endite) and thus made the word prone to have its "i" as IPA^(key): /aɪ/, with the "c" later inserted in analogy.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪt
• US: IPA^(key): /ˌɪnˈdaɪt/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: indite

Verb

indict (third-person singular simple present indicts, present participle indicting, simple past and past participle indicted)

1. To accuse of wrongdoing; charge.

   a book that indicts modern values

2. (law) To make a formal accusation or indictment for a crime against (a party) by the findings of a jury, especially a grand jury.

   his former manager was indicted for fraud

Translations

to accuse of wrongdoing

• Dutch: beschuldigen (nl)
• Finnish: syyttää (fi)
• French: accuser (fr)
• German: beschuldigen (de)
• Hungarian: vádol (hu)
• Italian: accusare (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: accuso (la)
• Portuguese: acusar (pt)
• Russian: обвиня́ть (ru) impf (obvinjátʹ), обвини́ть (ru) pf (obvinítʹ)
• Spanish: acusar (es), denunciar (es)
• Swedish: beskylla (sv), anklaga (sv), angripa (sv)

to make a formal accusation or indictment

• Bulgarian: предявявам обвинение (predjavjavam obvinenie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 起訴／起诉 (zh) (qǐsù), 起诉 (zh) (qǐsù)

• Dutch: aanklagen (nl)
• Finnish: syyttää (fi)
• French: inculper (fr)
• German: anklagen (de), beschuldigen (de)
• Hungarian: vádat emel, megvádol (hu)
• Irish: díotáil
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: incriminare (it)
• Japanese: 起訴する (ja) (きそする, kiso suru)
• Korean: 기소하다 (ko) (gisohada)
• Latin: crīminō
• Portuguese: acusar (pt)
• Russian: обвиня́ть (ru) impf (obvinjátʹ), обвини́ть (ru) pf (obvinítʹ), осужда́ть (ru) impf (osuždátʹ), осуди́ть (ru) pf (osudítʹ)
• Spanish: inculpar (es)
• Swedish: åtala (sv)
• Welsh: cyhuddo (cy), ditio

See also

• indite