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See also:homicidé
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]FromOld Frenchhomicide,fromLatinhomicīda(“man-slayer”)andhomicīdium(“manslaughter”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK)IPA(key):/ˈhɒm.ɪˌsaɪ̯d/
Audio(Southern England): (file) - (US)enPR:hämʹə-sīdˈ,hōʹmə-sīdˈ;IPA(key):/ˈhɑm.əˌsaɪ̯d/,/ˈhoʊ.məˌsaɪ̯d/
Noun
[edit]homicide(countableanduncountable,pluralhomicides)
- (countable,uncountable,crime)Thekillingof one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.
- (countable)A person who kills another.
- 1911,James George Frazer,The Golden Bough,volume11,page195:
- Homicidesin 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 ahomicide.She got what every homicide investigation gets.”
- 2003,Ellen Perry Berkeley,Keith's People,→ISBN,page58:
- We don't even know the woman was ahomicide.Didn't they say it was possible they both jumped?
- 2004,Jon Talton,Dry Heat,→ISBN,page40:
- The medical examiner was behind on autopsies and cranky, so we didn't even know if the old guy in the pool was ahomicide.
- (uncountable,US)The department within a police force that investigates cases of homicide.
Synonyms
[edit]- (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
Hypernyms
[edit]- (unlawful killing of a person by another):crime
Hyponyms
[edit]unlawful killing of a person by another
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]the killing of one person by another
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a person who kills another
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police jargon: a victim of homicide
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]FromLatinhomicīdium.
Noun
[edit]homicidem(pluralhomicides)
- homicide(killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]homicidemorfby sense(pluralhomicides)
Adjective
[edit]homicide(pluralhomicides)
- killer;that kills
Etymology 3
[edit]See the etymology of the correspondinglemmaform.
Verb
[edit]homicide
- inflection ofhomicider:
Further reading
[edit]- “homicide”,inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.
Middle French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]homicidem(pluralhomicides)
Noun
[edit]homicidemorf(pluralhomicides)
Adjective
[edit]homicidemorf(pluralhomicides)
- killer;that kills
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