crimen

Unadapted borrowing from Latin crīmen (“verdict; adultery; crime”). Doublet of crime.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹaɪmən/

crimen (countable and uncountable, plural crimina)

1. (law, ecclesiastical law) An impediment to Catholic marriage due to a conspiracy to murder or a death of a previous spouse.^[1]
   • 1884, The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, 3rd Series, Volume V, page 416,

     Such presumptions are common in connection with crimen and affinity.

   • 2006, Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly, Volumes 29-30, Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, page 7,

     Third, some might think that Michael avoids the impediment of crimen because a civil court approved his petition to deprive Terri of nutrition and hydration.

   Synonym: impediment of crime

   Coordinate term: conjugicide

• Impediment (Catholic canon law) § List of diriment impediments to marriage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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From Proto-Italic *kreimən, from Proto-Indo-European *kréymn̥, from *krey- (“sieve”) + *-mn̥, equivalent to cernō (“sieve”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix). Compare also Ancient Greek κρῖμα (krîma).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkriː.mɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkriː.men]

crīmen n (genitive crīminis); third declension

1. A judicial decision, verdict, or judgment.
2. An object of reproach, invective.
3. A crime, fault, offense

   Synonyms: dēlictum, peccātum, scelus, vitium, noxa, facinus, iniūria, error, culpa, malum, commissum, flāgitium, dēlinquentia, maleficium

   Antonyms: bonum, rēctum, virtūs

   • probably 1355, Marino Faliero's picture in the Great Council Hall, Venice

     Hic est locus Marinī Faliero
     decapitātī prō crīminibus

     This is the place for Marino Faliero,
     decapitated for crimes

4. An object representing a crime.
5. A cause of a crime; criminal.
6. The crime of lewdness; adultery.
7. (in respect to the accuser) A charge, accusation, reproach; calumny, slander.
8. (in respect to the accused) The fault one is accused of; crime, misdeed, offence, fault.

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• crīminālis
• crīminor
• crīminōsus

• “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)
    
• “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

• Cremni

Learned borrowing from Latin crīmen (“verdict; crime”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾimen/ [ˈkɾi.mẽn]

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• Rhymes: -imen
• Syllabification: cri‧men

crimen m (plural crímenes)

1. violent crime

   Synonym: delito

• crimen refers to very serious crimes such as murder or assault; delito refers to any violation of the law.

• → Ilocano: krimen
• → Tagalog: krimen

• “crimen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024