different between criminate vs indict

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin crimino, criminatus.

Verb

criminate (third-person singular simple present criminates, present participle criminating, simple past and past participle criminated)

1. (transitive) To accuse (someone) of a crime; to incriminate. [from 17th c.]
   • 1791, Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest, Penguin 1999, p. 331:

     ‘I am now under confinement in this place for debt; but if you obtain […] a condition from the judge that what I reveal shall not criminate myself, I will make discoveries that shall confound that same Marquis […].’

2. (transitive, now rare) To rebuke or censure (someone). [from 17th c.]

Derived terms

Related terms

• crimination

Translations

Anagrams

• anticrime, antimeric, carminite, macrinite, metrician

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kri?.mi?na?.te/, [k?i?m??nä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kri.mi?na.te/, [k?imi?n??t??]

Verb

cr?min?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of cr?min?

English

Etymology

From Middle English enditen, endyten, from Old French enditer, from Late Latin indict?re, from Latin in- + dict?re. Doublet of indite.

The irregular spelling is due to the word having been borrowed into Middle English from Old French, and not from Latin as was the case with most other descendants of dict?re (but see dight). The borrowed /i?/ regularly shifted to /a?/ in the course of the Great Vowel Shift; the "c" represents a later attempt at graphic Latinisation.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?t
• (US) IPA^(key): /??n?da?t/
• Homophone: indite

Verb

indict (third-person singular simple present indicts, present participle indicting, simple past and past participle indicted)

1. To accuse of wrongdoing; charge.

2. (law) To make a formal accusation or indictment for a crime against (a party) by the findings of a jury, especially a grand jury.

Derived terms

• indictable
• indictment

Translations

See also

• indite