different between crime vs criminalization

English

Etymology

From Middle English cryme, crime, from Old French crime, crimne, from Latin cr?men. Displaced native Old English firen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?a?m/
• Rhymes: -a?m

Noun

crime (countable and uncountable, plural crimes)

1. (countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law.
2. (countable) Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity.
3. (countable, obsolete) That which occasions crime.
4. (uncountable) Criminal acts collectively.

   Synonyms: criminality, delinquency

5. (uncountable) The habit or practice of committing crimes.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to crime: organized, brutal, terrible, horrible, heinous, horrendous, hideous, financial, sexual, international.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

References

• crime on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

crime (third-person singular simple present crimes, present participle criming, simple past and past participle crimed)

1. (Britain, military, transitive) To subject to disciplinary punishment.
   • 1846, John Mercier McMullen, Camp and Barrack-room, Or, The British Army as it is (page 298)

     Nevertheless, in the course of a few days he is again intoxicated, creates disturbance in his quarters, is confined by his sergeant, crimed, and brought before the commanding officer […]

2. (nonce word) To commit crime(s).

See also

• offence
• sin
• administrative infraction (less serious violation of the law)

Anagrams

• REMIC, merci

French

Etymology

From Old French crimne, borrowed from Latin cr?men, from Proto-Italic *kreimen, from Proto-Indo-European *kréymn?, from *krey- (“sieve”) + *-mn?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?im/
• Rhymes: -im

Noun

crime m (plural crimes)

1. A category of severe infractions within French law, with the strongest of penalties; a felony. (10 years and more according to law)

   Le meurtre, la trahison, ces sont les crimes punissable par la loi d'une peine lourde.

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

• délit

Further reading

• “crime” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• cimer
• merci

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cr?men.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kri.me/
• Hyphenation: crì?me

Noun

crime m (plural crimi)

1. (literary, rare) crime

   Synonyms: crimine, delitto

Related terms

• crimine

References

• crime in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Middle English

Noun

crime

1. Alternative form of cryme

Portuguese

Etymology

From French crime, from Latin cr?men.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?kri.mi/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?k?im?/

Noun

crime m (plural crimes)

1. crime

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:crime.

Related terms

• criminal
• criminoso

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?krime]

Noun

crime f

1. indefinite plural of crim?
2. indefinite genitive/dative singular of crim?

English

Alternative forms

• criminalisation (mainly UK)

Etymology

criminal +? -ization or criminalize +? -ation

Pronunciation

• enPR: kr?"m?n?l?z?'sh?n, IPA^(key): /?k??m?n?la?z?e???n/

Noun

criminalization (countable and uncountable, plural criminalizations)

1. The act of making a previously legal activity illegal, the act of making something a criminal offence.
2. The act of turning someone into a criminal by making their activities illegal.

Antonyms

• decriminalization

See also

• felonization
• misdemeanorization

Translations