noun · neuterthird declension
crīmen
crīmen n (genitive crīminis)
Classical[ˈkriː.mɛn]Ecclesiastical[ˈkriː.men]
№ 475 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- a judicial decision, verdict, or judgment
- an object of reproach, invective
- a crime, fault, offense
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
- a charge, accusation, reproach; calumny, slander
- the fault one is accused of; crime, misdeed, offence, fault
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
malum factum dē quō quis accūsātur.crīmen -inis n — in Mille Verba, Urbs et Aedificia
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | crīmen | crīmina |
| genitive | crīminis | crīminum |
| dative | crīminī | crīminibus |
| accusative | crīmen | crīmina |
| ablative | crīmine | crīminibus |
| vocative | crīmen | crīmina |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- crimina diluere, dissolvere
- to refute charges.
- aliquid alicui crimini dare, vertere
- to reproach a person with...
- aliquid alicui crimini dare, vitio vertere (Verr. 5. 50)
- to reproach, blame a person for...
crīmen, ĭnis, n. contr. for cernimen, from cerno, II. C.; lit.,
I. a judicial decision, verdict, judgment; hence, transf., like the Gr. κρῖμα, of the subject of such a decision, and with partieular reference either to the accuser or to the accused.
I. Subject., or with reference to the accuser, a charge, accusation, reproach; esp. when unfounded, a calumny, slander (very freq. in every period and species of composition):
criminin' me habuisse fidem? Plaut. Bacch. 4, 3, 15; cf. Ter. Hec. 5, 2, 13: hae litterae fidem Persei criminibus fecerunt, Liv. 40, 23, 9: cum respondero criminibus, Cic. Planc. 2, 4: se falsis criminibus circumventum, Sall. C. 34, 2; cf.: crimen falsum, Cic. Quint. 2, 8; Hor. C. 3, 7, 14: criminibus adversariorum in invidiam venire, Nep. Epam. 7, 3: sermones pleni criminum in Patres, Liv. 6, 14, 11: crimina et suspiciones, id. 40, 15, 3: tanti maleficii crimen probare te censes posse talibus viris, si, etc., Cic. Rosc. Am. 26, 72: sceleris maximi, id. Cael. 23, 56; cf. id. ib. 27, 65; id. Sull. 24, 8: istius conjurationis, id. ib. 4, 12: avaritiae, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 78, § 192; 2, 5, 1, § 2: veneficii, Quint. 5, 7, 37: ubi est crimen quod reprehenditis? i. e. the point of the accusation, Cic. Sest. 38, 80 Halm ad loc.: quo enim illi crimine peccatoque perierunt? id. Cael. 30, 71: haec causa est omnium horum scelerum atque criminum, id. ib. 25, 61; so (approaching the signif. II. A. infra), id C. Norbano in nefario crimine atque in fraude capitali esse ponendum, id. de Or. 2, 48, 199 Sorof ad loc.: era in crimen veniet, Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 55 (era male audiet, Don.): quid? sciebas tibi crimini datum iri? would be made a reproach? Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 29, § 74; cf. Ov. M. 1, 766: crimen adferre, Cic. Rab. Post. 10, 27; cf.: crimen inferre, offerre, id. Lael. 18, 65: in quos crimen intendebatur, Liv. 9, 26, 11: esse in crimine, to stand charged with, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 45, § 100: propulsare, id. Sull. 4, 12: defendere, to repel, confute, id. ib.; Ov. M. 13, 303; and opp. obicere, Quint. 6, 3, 69: repellere, transferre, id. 4, 2, 26 et saep.—Poet.: belli, pretexts (causae), Verg. A. 7, 339.—* B. Meton. (abstr. pro concreto), an object of reproach or invective:
perpetuae crimen posteritatis eris, Ov. Tr. 4, 9, 26.—II. Object., or with reference to the accused, the fault complained of, a crime, fault, offence (freq., but rare in ante-Aug. prose).
A. Lit.
1. Ingen.:
foedati crimine turpi, Lucr. 3, 49: cum haec (causa) non in crimine aliquo, quod ille posset infitiari ... consisteret, Cic. de Or. 1, 40, 182 Sorof ad loc.: crimen meum indicare, Liv. 40, 12, 10; 41, 25, 6: carendum non solum crimine turpitudinis, verum etiam suspicione, Quint. 2, 2, 14: cum quidam crimen ultro faterentur, Suet. Claud. 36: velut crimen taedas exosa jugales, Ov. M. 1, 483: non prodere vultu, id. ib. 2, 447: scire, id. ib. 2, 614: hoc si crimen erit, crimen amoris erit, Prop. 2 (3), 30, 24. cf.: tuum crimen erit, thy fault, id. 2 (3), 28, 2: crimina et innoxios discernere, Tac. A. 1, 55.—Ovid in his Tristia very freq. calls the offence on account of which he was banished crimina or crimen, interchanging it with error, e. g. 1, 9, 64; 2, 3; 2, 207; 3, 5, 52; 3, 6, 26 al.—b. Of inanim. objects:
crimina brassicae sunt, animae gravitatem facere, etc., fault, defect, Plin. 20, 9, 35, § 91.—B. Meton.
1. An object representing a crime:
et rupit pictas, caelestia crimina, vestes, i. e. deorum adulteria, Ov. M. 6, 131; cf.: tum paries nullo crimine pictus erat, Prop. 2, 6, 34 (2, 5, 26 Bip.): impressā signat sua crimina gemmā, a letter containing her crime, Ov. M. 9, 566.—2. A cause of a crime, a criminal:
se causam clamat crimenque caputque malorum, Verg. A. 12, 600; cf.: a pereant Baiae, crimen amoris, aquae, Prop. 1, 11, 30: Crimen et illa fuit ... Myrrha, id. 3, 19 (4, 18), 15.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
crīmen inis, n
2 CER-, a judgment, charge, accusation, reproach: crimini credidisse, T.: fidem criminibus facere, L.: respondere criminibus: falsis criminibus circumventus, calumnies, S.: fictum, O.: cui crimina noxia cordi, scandals, V.: sermones pleni criminum in Patres, slanders, L.: sceleris maximi: ubi est crimen quod reprehenditis? i. e. the point of the accusation: crimine verso Arguit, etc., throwing back the charge, O.: sciebas tibi crimini datum iri? would be made a reproach?: Non tibi crimen ero, O.: Crimen, amor, vestrum, a reproach, Love, to you (i. e. to Cupido and Venus), V.: crimen inferre, offerre: in quos crimen intendebatur, L.: esse in crimine, to stand charged with: Cum tanto commune viro, shared, O.: sine crimine, blameless, H.: posteritatis, the reproach, O.: quae te mihi crimina mutant? slanders, Pr.— A crime, fault, offence: meum, L.: crimine ab uno Disce omnīs, V.: cui frigida mens est Criminibus, numbed by, Iu.: sere crimina belli, provocations, V.: malorum, the source, V.—Plur. for sing: video tuum, mea crimina, volnus, O.: impressā signat sua crimina gemmā, the recital of, O.
Origins
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).
Descendants
- Catalancrim
- Englishcrimen
- Frenchcrimefrom Old French crime
- Portuguesecrimefrom Old French crime
- Englishcrimefrom Old French crime
- Italiancrimine
- Romaniancrimă
- Spanishcrimbre
- Spanishcrimen
- Albaniankrim
In English words that came into English from crīmen
- crimecrīmen
- criminalcriminalis
- criminalitycriminalitas
- incriminateincrīminātus
- criminatecrīminātus
- incriminationincriminatus
- criminationcriminatio
- pedocriminalcriminalis
- criminouscrīminōsus