# crimen
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɹaɪmən/

### Noun

crimen (countable and uncountable, plural crimina)
* (law, ecclesiastical law) An impediment to Catholic marriage due to a conspiracy to murder or a death of a previous spouse.
** 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

#### Related terms

* crimen adulterii
* crimen exceptum
* crimen falsi
* crimen injuria
* nullum crimen

### See also

* bigamy
* diriment
* diriment impediment

### References

* ↑ "Impediment of Crime" on New Advent

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* mincer

## Latin
### Etymology

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).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkriː.men/, [ˈkriːmɛn]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkri.men/, [ˈkriːmen]

### Noun

crīmen n (genitive crīminis); third declension
* A judicial decision, verdict, or judgment.
* An object of reproach, invective.
* 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
* 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.

#### Declension

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

#### Derived terms

* crīminālis
* crīminor
* crīminōsus

#### Related terms

* crīmināliter
* crīminātiō
* crīminātor
* crīminātrix
* crīminō
* crīminōsē

#### Descendants

* → Albanian: krim
* Aromanian: crimã
* Catalan: crim
* → English: crimen
* Old French: crime
** French: crime
*** → Portuguese: crime
** → English: crime
* Norman: crînme
* Italian: crimine
* → Romanian: crimă
* Romansch: crim
* Sicilian: crìmini
* → Spanish: crimen
** → Tagalog: krimen

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “cernō, -ere (> Derivatives > crīmen, -inis)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 110

### Further reading

* “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, 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

### Anagrams

* Cremni

## Spanish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɾimen/ [ˈkɾi.mẽn]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -imen
* Syllabification: cri‧men

### Noun

crimen m (plural crímenes)
* violent crime
    Synonym: delito

#### Usage notes

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

#### Derived terms

* crimen contra naturaleza
* crimen de guerra
* crimen de honor
* crimen de lesa humanidad
* crimen organizado
* crimen pasional

#### Related terms

* criminal
* criminar

#### Descendants

* → Ilocano: krimen
* → Tagalog: krimen

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10