homicide

See also: homicidé

English

Alternative forms

• hominicide

Etymology

From Old French homicide, from Latin homicīda (“man-slayer”) and homicīdium (“manslaughter”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒm.ɪˌsaɪ̯d/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) enPR: hämʹə-sīdˈ, hōʹmə-sīdˈ; IPA^(key): /ˈhɑm.əˌsaɪ̯d/, /ˈhoʊ.məˌsaɪ̯d/

Noun

homicide (countable and uncountable, plural homicides)

1. (countable, uncountable, crime) The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.
2. (countable) A person who kills another.
   • 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 11, page 195:

     Homicides in general and victorious warriors in particular are often obliged to perform a variety of ceremonies for the purpose of ridding them of the dangerous ghosts of their victims.

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:

     “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.

4. (uncountable, US) The department within a police force that investigates cases of 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, manslayer, murderer
• (victim of homicide): murder victim

Derived terms

• autohomicide
• culpable homicide
• homeycide (slang)
• homicidal
• justifiable homicide
• self-homicide
• wilful homicide

 

Translations

the killing of one person by another

• Afrikaans: doodslag (unintentional), moord (af) (intentional)
• Armenian: մարդասպանություն (mardaspanutʻyun), սպանություն (hy) (spanutʻyun)
• Asturian: homicidiu m
• Belarusian: забо́йства (be) n (zabójstva)
• Bulgarian: уби́йство (bg) n (ubíjstvo)
• Catalan: homicidi (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 殺人／杀人 (zh) (shārén), 他殺／他杀 (zh) (tāshā)

• Czech: vražda (cs) f
• Danish: mord (da) n
• Dutch: doodslag (nl) m (unintentional), moord (nl) m (intentional)
• Esperanto: murdo (eo) (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)
• 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(殺人) (ko) (sarin)
• Latin: homicīdium n
• Latvian: slepkavība f
• Macedonian: убиство n (ubistvo)
• Malayalam: കൊലപാതകം (ml) (kolapātakaṁ), വധം (ml) (vadhaṁ), നരഹത്യ (ml) (narahatya)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: drap n, mord (no) n

• Occitan: omicidi (oc) m
• Persian: آدمکشی (fa) (âdamkoši)
• Plautdietsch: Mort 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: уби́ство n, у̀бо̄јство n, умо́рство n

  Roman: ubístvo (sh) n, ùbōjstvo (sh) n, umórstvo (sh) n

• Slovak: vražda (sk) f
• Slovene: umor (sl) m
• Spanish: homicidio (es) m
• Swedish: mord (sv) n
• Tagalog: pagkapatay, homisidyo
• Turkish: cinayet (tr)
• Ukrainian: уби́вство n (ubývstvo), вби́вство n (vbývstvo) (alternative form)

a person who kills another

• Afrikaans: moordenaar
• Armenian: մարդասպան (hy) (mardaspan)
• Belarusian: забо́йца (be) m or f (zabójca)
• Bulgarian: уби́ец (bg) m (ubíec), уби́йца f (ubíjca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 兇手／凶手 (zh) (xiōngshǒu)

• Finnish: tappaja (fi), murhaaja (fi), surmaaja (fi)
• French: (murderer) homicide (fr) m, (male murderer) meurtrier (fr) m, (female murderer) meurtrière (fr) 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 (ja) (ひとごろし, hitogoroshi), 殺人者 (ja) (さつじんしゃ, satsujinsha)
• Korean: 살인자(殺人者) (ko) (sarinja)
• Latin: homicīda f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: morder m, morderske m or f (female), drapsperson m, drapsmann m, drapskvinne m or f (female)

• Polish: morderca (pl) m, morderczyni (pl) f
• Portuguese: homicida (pt) m or f
• Russian: уби́йца (ru) m or f (ubíjca)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̀бица m (Bosnian, Serbian), у̀бојица m (Croatian)

  Roman: ùbica (sh) m (Bosnian, Serbian), ùbojica (sh) m (Croatian)

• Slovak: vrah (sk) m, vrahyňa (sk) f
• Slovene: morilec (sl) m, morilka f
• Spanish: homicida (es) m or f, victimario
• Swedish: mördare (sv) c
• Ukrainian: вби́вця m or f (vbývcja), уби́вця (uk) m or f (ubývcja)

police jargon: a victim of homicide

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 受害者 (zh) (shòuhàizhě)

• Finnish: murhattu (fi), surmattu (fi), tapettu (fi)
• Greek: ανθρωποκτονία (el) f (anthropoktonía)
• Swedish: mordoffer (sv) n

See also

• deicide
• filicide
• familicide
• feticide
• fratricide
• genocide
• infanticide
• mariticide
• matricide
• omnicide
• parricide
• patricide
• populicide
• prolicide
• regicide
• sororicide
• suicide
• tyrannicide
• unlawful death
• uxoricide

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.mi.sid/

• Audio

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Etymology 1

From Latin homicīdium.

Noun

homicide m (plural homicides)

1. homicide (killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional)

Derived terms

• homicide involontaire
• homicide volontaire

 

Etymology 2

From Latin homicīda.

Noun

homicide m or f by sense (plural homicides)

1. homicide, killer (person who kills another)

Adjective

homicide (plural homicides)

1. killer; that kills

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

homicide

1. inflection of homicider:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “homicide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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