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crimen

crimen

English

Noun

crimen ‎(uncountable)

  1. (religion) An impediment to marriage in the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church, preventing the marriage of people who had murdered an existing spouse in order to remarry (even without committing adultery).

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kreimen, from Proto-Indo-European *kréymn̥, from *krey- ‎(“sieve”) + *-mn̥, equivalent to cernō ‎(“sieve”) +‎ -men ‎(noun-forming suffix). Compare also Ancient Greek κρῖμα ‎(krîma).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkriː.men/, [ˈkriː.mẽ]

Noun

crīmen n ‎(genitive crīminis); third declension

  1. A judicial decision, verdict, judgment or judgement.
  2. An object of reproach, invective.
  3. An object representing a crime.
  4. A cause of a crime; criminal.
  5. The crime of lewdness; adultery.
  6. (in respect to the accuser) A charge, accusation, reproach; calumny, slander.
  7. (in respect to the accused) The fault one is accused of; crime, misdeed, offence, fault.

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

Case Singular Plural
nominative crīmen crīmina
genitive crīminis crīminum
dative crīminī crīminibus
accusative crīmen crīmina
ablative crīmine crīminibus
vocative crīmen crīmina

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References

  • crimen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • crimen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Félix Gaffiot (1934), “crimen”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
  • Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to reproach a person with..: aliquid alicui crimini dare, vertere
    • to refute charges: crimina diluere, dissolvere
    • to reproach, blame a person for..: aliquid alicui crimini dare, vitio vertere (Verr. 5. 50)
  • crimen in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • crimen in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin crīmen ‎(“verdict; crime”).

Noun

crimen m ‎(plural crímenes)

  1. violent crime (for non-violent crimes use delito)

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • crimen organizado

Etymology

From Latin crīmen ‎(“verdict; adultery; crime”).

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