# homicide
## English
### Alternative forms

* hominicide

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈhɒm.ɪˌsaɪ̯d/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) enPR: hämʹə-sīdˈ, hōʹmə-sīdˈ; IPA: /ˈhɑm.əˌsaɪ̯d/, /ˈhoʊ.məˌsaɪ̯d/

### Noun

homicide (countable and uncountable, plural homicides)
* (countable, uncountable, crime) The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.
* (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.
* (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.
* (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

#### Hypernyms

* (unlawful killing of a person by another): crime

#### Hyponyms

* autohomicide
* culpable homicide
* homeycide (slang)
* justifiable homicide
* self-homicide
* wilful homicide

#### Derived terms

* homicidal

#### Translations
### See also

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

### Further reading

* homicide on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɔ.mi.sid/
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

From Latin homicīdium.

#### Noun

homicide m (plural homicides)
* 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)
* homicide, killer (person who kills another)

#### Adjective

homicide (plural homicides)
* killer; that kills

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

homicide
* inflection of homicider:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** 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)
* homicide

### Noun

homicide m or f (plural homicides)
* killer

### Adjective

homicide m or f (plural homicides)
* killer; that kills