crimen
English edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Latin crīmen (“verdict; adultery; crime”). Doublet of crime.
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Noun edit
crimen (countable and uncountable, plural crimina)
- (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).
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Etymology edit
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 edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkriː.men/, [ˈkriːmɛn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkri.men/, [ˈkriːmen]
Noun edit
crīmen n (genitive crīminis); third declension
- A judicial decision, verdict, or judgment.
- An object of reproach, invective.
- A crime, fault, offense
- An object representing a crime.
- A cause of a crime; criminal.
- The crime of lewdness; adultery.
- (in respect to the accuser) A charge, accusation, reproach; calumny, slander.
- (in respect to the accused) The fault one is accused of; crime, misdeed, offence, fault.
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
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 edit
- “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
- crimen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], 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)
- to reproach a person with..: aliquid alicui crimini dare, vertere
- “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
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Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin crīmen (“verdict; crime”).
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Noun edit
crimen m (plural crímenes)
Usage notes edit
- crimen refers to very serious crimes such as murder or assault; delito refers to any violation of the law.
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Further reading edit
- “crimen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014