crimen

Latin

noun
Definitions
  • A judicial decision, verdict, or judgment.
  • An object of reproach, invective.
  • 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.

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Italic *kreimen inherited from Proto-Indo-European *kréymn̥ suffix from Latin cernō (discern, see, separate, sieve, sift, I separate, I sift) root from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (separate, seive, divide, touch, strip, sieve, sift, graze, split, I separate, shake, streak, pick out, I move, part).

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Proto-Indo-European

*krey-

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separate, seive, divide, touch, strip, sieve, sift, graze, split, I separate, shake, streak, pick out, I move, part

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