homicide
See also: homicidé
English
Alternative forms
- hominicide
Etymology
From Old French homicide, from Latin homicīda (“man-slayer”) and homicīdium (“manslaughter”).
Pronunciation
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
Derived terms
Translations
the killing of one person by another
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a person who kills another
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔ.mi.sid/
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Etymology 1
From Latin homicīdium.
Noun
homicide m (plural homicides)
- homicide (killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional)
Derived terms
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
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