criminel

Inherited from Old French criminal, borrowed from Late Latin or Juridical Latin criminālis, from Latin crīmen.

• IPA^(key): /kʁi.mi.nɛl/

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criminel (feminine criminelle, masculine plural criminels, feminine plural criminelles)

1. criminal (against the law)
2. (relational) crime; criminal
3. criminal (similar to a criminal)

• → Danish: kriminel
• → Swedish: kriminell
• → Turkish: kriminel

criminel m (plural criminels, feminine criminelle)

1. criminal (someone who commits a crime)

• criminel de guerre

• crime

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