crimen.
indictment/charge/accusation; blame/reproach/slander; verdict/judgment (L+S); sin/guilt; crime/offense/fault; cause of a crime, criminal (L+S); adultery;
Meaning & usage
a judicial decision, verdict, or judgment
an object of reproach, invective
a crime, fault, offense
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
Where this word comes from
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).
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