kriminalist

• kriminàlista (Bosnia, Serbia)

From kriminalìstika.

• IPA^(key): /kriminǎlist/
• Hyphenation: kri‧mi‧na‧list

kriminàlist m anim (Cyrillic spelling кримина̀лист)

1. (Croatia) criminologist

• “kriminalist”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

• criminalist, kriminelist (obsolete)

kriminal- (“crime”) +‎ -ist (“-ist”). Cognate with English criminalist, French criminaliste, German Kriminalist and Latin criminalis.

• IPA^(key): /krɪmɪnaˈlɪst/

kriminalist c

1. (dated, law) a criminalist; a person who owns scientifically vocational training in crime and punishment
   • 1934, Eliel Löfgren, Klockorna i Östervåla‎^[1], page 48:

     Det yttrande av en engelsk kriminalist [Sir Basil Thomson], som citerats i början av detta kapitel [...]

     The opinion of an English criminalist [Sir Basil Thomson], quoted at the beginning of this chapter [...]

2. (obsolete) a criminal

   Synonyms: brottsling, kriminell

   • 1734 August 17, “Anmärkningar mot förslaget till Rättegångsbalk vid 1734 års riksdag”, in Förarbetena till Sveriges rikes lag 8‎^[2]:

     § 32. Som tå mer än halfwa bewijs äro emot en criminalist, han ej kan af domaren aldeles befrias, så måste saken lemnas till framtiden [...]

     § 32. As when more than half the evidence is against a criminal, he can not be completely acquitted by the judge, so the case must be left to the future [...]

• kriminolog (“criminologist”)

• kriminalist in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• kriminalist in Nordisk familjebok (2nd ed., 1911)