homicide

See also:homicidé

English

Alternative forms

• hominicide

Etymology

FromOld Frenchhomicide,fromLatinhomicīda(“man-slayer”)andhomicīdium(“manslaughter”).

Pronunciation

• (UK)IPA^(key):/ˈhɒm.ɪˌsaɪ̯d/

• Audio(Southern England):

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• (US)enPR:hämʹə-sīdˈ,hōʹmə-sīdˈ;IPA^(key):/ˈhɑm.əˌsaɪ̯d/,/ˈhoʊ.məˌsaɪ̯d/

Noun

homicide(countableanduncountable,pluralhomicides)

1. (countable,uncountable,crime)Thekillingof one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.
2. (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.

3. (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.

4. (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

Hypernyms

• (unlawful killing of a person by another):crime

Hyponyms

unlawful killing of a person by another

• autohomicide
• culpable homicide
• homeycide(slang)
• justifiable homicide
• self-homicide
• wilful homicide

Derived terms

• homicidal

Translations

the killing of one person by another

• Afrikaans:doodslag(unintentional),moord(af)(intentional)
• Armenian:մարդասպանություն(mardaspanutʻyun),սպանություն(hy)(spanutʻyun)
• Asturian:homicidium
• Belarusian:забо́йства(be)n(zabójstva)
• Bulgarian:уби́йство(bg)n(ubíjstvo)
• Catalan:homicidi(ca)m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Giết người／Giết người(zh)(shārén),Hắn sát／Hắn sát(zh)(tāshā)

• Czech:vražda(cs)f
• Danish:mord(da)n
• Dutch:doodslag(nl)m(unintentional),moord(nl)m(intentional)
• Esperanto:murdo(eo)(murder)
• Faroese:drápn,morðn
• Finnish:(unintentional)tappo(fi),(premeditated)murha(fi)
• French:homicide(fr)m(murder),meurtre(fr)m(murder),assassinat(fr)m(murder),(manslaughter)homicide involontaire(fr)m
• Galician:homicidio(gl)m
• German:Mord(de)m(intentional),Totschlag(de)m(manslaughter),Tötungsdelikt(de)m(law term)
• Greek:ανθρωποκτονία(el)f(anthropoktonía)
• Hungarian:emberölés(hu)
• Icelandic:manndráp(is)n
• Ido:homocido(io)
• Indonesian:pembunuhan(id)
• Italian:omicidio(it)m,(manslaughter)omicidio colposom,(murder)omicidio premeditatom,(murder)assassinio(it)m
• Japanese:Giết người(ja)(さつじん, satsujin)
• Korean:살인( giết người )(ko)(sarin)
• Latin:homicīdiumn
• Latvian:slepkavībaf
• Macedonian:убиствоn(ubistvo)
• Malayalam:കൊലപാതകം(ml)(kolapātakaṁ),വധം(ml)(vadhaṁ),നരഹത്യ(ml)(narahatya)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:drapn,mord(no)n

• Occitan:omicidi(oc)m
• Persian:آدمکشی(phát)(âdamkoši)
• Plautdietsch:Mortm
• Polish:zabójstwo(pl)n
• Portuguese:homicídio(pt)m
• Romanian:omucidere(ro)f,omor(ro)n,asasinat(ro)n,homicid(ro)n
• Russian:уби́йство(ru)n(ubíjstvo),гомици́д(ru)m(gomicíd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:уби́ствоn,у̀бо̄јствоn,умо́рствоn

  Roman:ubístvo(sh)n,ùbōjstvo(sh)n,umórstvo(sh)n

• Slovak:vražda(sk)f
• Slovene:umor(sl)m
• Spanish:homicidio(es)m
• Swedish:mord(sv)n
• Tagalog:pagkapatay,homisidyo
• Turkish:cinayet(tr)
• Ukrainian:уби́вствоn(ubývstvo),вби́вствоn(vbývstvo)(alternative form)

a person who kills another

• Afrikaans:moordenaar
• Armenian:մարդասպան(hy)(mardaspan)
• Belarusian:забо́йца(be)morf(zabójca)
• Bulgarian:уби́ец(bg)m(ubíec),уби́йцаf(ubíjca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Hung thủ／Hung thủ(zh)(xiōngshǒu)

• Finnish:tappaja(fi),murhaaja(fi),surmaaja(fi)
• French:(murderer)homicide(fr)m,(male murderer)meurtrier(fr)m,(female murderer)meurtrière(fr)f,(murderer)assassin(fr)
• German:Mörder(de)m
• Greek:ανθρωποκτόνος(el)morf(anthropoktónos)
• Hungarian:gyilkos(hu)
• Indonesian:pembunuh(id)
• Italian:(male or female)omicida(it)morf,(male murderer)assassino(it)m,(female murderer)assassina(it)f
• Japanese:Người sát し(ja)(ひとごろし, hitogoroshi),Kẻ giết người(ja)(さつじんしゃ, satsujinsha)
• Korean:살인자( kẻ giết người )(ko)(sarinja)
• Latin:homicīdaf
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:morderm,morderskemorf(female),drapspersonm,drapsmannm,drapskvinnemorf(female)

• Polish:morderca(pl)m,morderczyni(pl)f
• Portuguese:homicida(pt)morf
• Russian:уби́йца(ru)morf(ubíjca)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:у̀бицаm(Bosnian, Serbian),у̀бојицаm(Croatian)

  Roman:ùbica(sh)m(Bosnian, Serbian),ùbojica(sh)m(Croatian)

• Slovak:vrah(sk)m,vrahyňa(sk)f
• Slovene:morilec(sl)m,morilkaf
• Spanish:homicida(es)morf,victimario
• Swedish:mördare(sv)c
• Turkish:cani(tr)(cânî)
• Ukrainian:вби́вцяmorf(vbývcja),уби́вця(uk)morf(ubývcja)

police jargon: a victim of homicide

• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Người bị hại(zh)(shòuhàizhě)

• Finnish:murhattu(fi),surmattu(fi),tapettu(fi)
• German:Opfer(de)n
• Greek:ανθρωποκτονία(el)f(anthropoktonía)
• Swedish:mordoffer(sv)n
• Turkish:kurban(tr)

See also

• deicide
• filicide
• familicide
• feticide
• fratricide
• genocide
• infanticide
• mariticide
• matricide
• omnicide
• parricide
• patricide
• populicide
• prolicide
• regicide
• sororicide
• suicide
• tyrannicide
• unlawful death
• uxoricide

Further reading

• homicideon Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ɔ.mi.sid/

• Audio:

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Etymology 1

FromLatinhomicīdium.

Noun

homicidem(pluralhomicides)

1. homicide(killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional)

Derived terms

• homicide involontaire
• homicide volontaire

Etymology 2

FromLatinhomicīda.

Noun

homicidemorfby sense(pluralhomicides)

1. homicide,killer(person who kills another)

Adjective

homicide(pluralhomicides)

1. killer;that kills

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the correspondinglemmaform.

Verb

homicide

1. inflection ofhomicider:
   1. first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
   2. second-personsingularimperative

Further reading

• “homicide”,inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Middle French

Alternative forms

• omicide

Noun

homicidem(pluralhomicides)

1. homicide

Noun

homicidemorf(pluralhomicides)

1. killer

Adjective

homicidemorf(pluralhomicides)

1. killer;that kills