# crime
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English cryme, crime, from Old French crime, crimne, from Latin crīmen. Displaced native Old English firen.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /kɹaɪm/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪm

### Noun

crime (countable and uncountable, plural crimes)
* (countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law, especially criminal law.
* (countable) Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity.
** 1687 (date written), Alexander Pope, “Ode for Musick on St. Cecilia’s Day”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], →OCLC, canto VI, page 376:No crime was thine, if 'tis no crime to love.
* (countable, obsolete) That which occasions crime.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 46:the tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall
* (uncountable) Criminal acts collectively.
    Synonyms: criminality, delinquency
* (uncountable) The habit or practice of committing crimes.
    Crime doesn’t pay.

#### Hyponyms

* crime against humanity
* crime against nature
* crime of passion
* criminal act
* felony
* hate crime
* high crime
* international crime
* misdemeanor, misdemeanour
* organised crime, organized crime
* petty crime
* postcrime
* regulatory offence
* sex crime
* sexual offence
* summary crime
* time crime
* war crime
* white collar crime

#### Derived terms

* aftercrime
* anticrime
* autocrime
* biocrime
* capital crime
* consensual crime
* crimance
* crime buster
* crime-buster
* crimebuster
* crimebusting
* crime car
* crime doesn't pay
* crime-fighter
* crimefighter
* crime fighter
* crimefighting
* crime-free, crimefree
* crimeful
* crime index
* crimeless
* crimelike
* crime lord
* crime mapping
* crime passionel
* crimeproof
* crime rate
* crime-ridden, crimeridden
* crime scene
* crime science
* crime scientist
* crime sheet
* crimestopper
* crimethink
* crimeware
* crime wave
* crimewave
* crimie
* criminal
* criminal law
* criminally
* criminal record
* criminological
* criminologically
* criminologist
* criminology
* crimo
* crimogenic
* cybercrime
* decrime
* decriminalisation, decriminalization
* decriminalise, decriminalize
* e-crime
* envirocrime
* enviro-crime
* facecrime
* hate-crime
* he who said the rhyme did the crime
* impediment of crime
* knifecrime
* knife crime
* no-crime
* no crime
* noncrime
* noncriminal
* organizational crime
* partner in crime
* perfect crime
* pre-crime
* precrime
* recriminalisation, recriminalization
* recriminalise, recriminalize
* stranger crime
* street crime
* thoughtcrime
* tough on crime
* true crime
* uncrime
* victimless crime
* white-collar crime
* youth crime

#### Collocations

* organized crime
* brutal crime
* terrible crime
* horrible crime
* heinous crime
* horrendous crime
* hideous crime
* financial crime
* sexual crime
* international crime

#### Translations

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#### References

* crime on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Verb

crime (third-person singular simple present crimes, present participle criming, simple past and past participle crimed)
* (UK, military, transitive) To subject to disciplinary punishment.
** 1846, John Mercier McMullen, Camp and Barrack-room, Or, The British Army as it is, page 298:Nevertheless, in the course of a few days he is again intoxicated, creates disturbance in his quarters, is confined by his sergeant, crimed, and brought before the commanding officer […]
* (nonce word) To commit crime.
** 1987, Robert Sampson, Yesterday's Faces: From the Dark Side, →ISBN, page 61:If, during the 1920s, the master criminal was a gamester, criming for self expression, during the 1930s he performed in other ways for other purposes.

### See also

* delictual
* felony
* offence
* sin
* administrative infraction (less serious violation of the law)

### Anagrams

* REMIC, merci

## Asturian
### Noun

crime m (plural crímenes)
* murder
* crime

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French crimne, borrowed from Latin crīmen, from Proto-Italic *kreimen, from Proto-Indo-European *kréymn̥, from *krey- (“sieve”) + *-mn̥.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kʁim/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -im

### Noun

crime m (plural crimes)
* a category of severe offences within French law, comparable to a felony under United States laws. Crime are tied to the strongest of penalties,10 years and more according to law.
    Le meurtre, la trahison, ces sont les crimes punissable par la loi d'une peine lourde.

#### Derived terms

* arme du crime
* crime contre l’humanité
* crime de guerre
* crime d’honneur
* crime passionnel
* le crime ne paie pas

#### Related terms

* criminalité
* criminel
* criminogène
* criminologie

#### See also

* délit

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* cimer
* merci

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin crīmen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkri.me/
* Rhymes: -ime
* Hyphenation: crì‧me

### Noun

crime m (plural crimi)
* (literary, rare) crime
    Synonyms: crimine, delitto

#### Related terms

* crimine

### Further reading

* crime in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* cremi, merci

## Middle English
### Noun

crime
* Alternative form of cryme

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from French crime, from Latin crīmen.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkɾĩ.mi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkɾĩ.mi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈkɾi.me/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈkɾi.mɨ/
* Hyphenation: cri‧me

### Noun

crime m (plural crimes)
* crime
    Synonym: delito
    O ladrão cometeu um crime horrível.The thief committed a terrible crime.

#### Quotations

* For quotations using this term, see Citations:crime.

#### Derived terms

* crime contra a humanidade
* crime de guerra
* crime de ódio
* crime do colarinho branco
* crime organizado
* crime passional

#### Related terms

* criminal
* criminalidade
* criminologia
* criminólogo
* criminoso

### References

* ↑ “crime”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
* ↑ “crime”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkrime]

### Noun

crime f
* inflection of crimă:
** indefinite plural
** indefinite genitive/dative singular