Haupttäter
German edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
Haupttäter m (strong, genitive Haupttäters, plural Haupttäter)
- (law, Germany) a perpetrator, as opposed to an instigator or an accomplice
- (common parlance) main perpetrator (the one who contributed the most to, committed the main part of a crime)
- Antonym: Nebentäter
- main perpetrator (archetypal perpetrator for a specific type of crime)
Declension edit
Declension of Haupttäter [masculine, strong]
See also edit
Further reading edit
- Haupttäter on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- “Haupttäter” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Haupttäter” in Duden online
- “Haupttäter” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon