different between homicide vs homicider

English

Etymology

From Old French homicide, from Latin homic?da (“man-slayer”) and homic?dium (“manslaughter”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?m?sa?d/
• (US) enPR: häm??-s?d, h??m?-s?d, IPA^(key): /?h?m?sa?d/, /?ho?m?sa?d/

Noun

homicide (countable and uncountable, plural homicides)

1. (countable, uncountable, crime) The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.
2. (countable) A person who kills another.
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 [1]:

     “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.”

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, man-slayer, murderer
• (victim of homicide): murder victim

Derived terms

• homicidal
• culpable homicide

Translations

See also

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin homicidium

Pronunciation

Noun

homicide m (plural homicides)

1. homicide

Noun

homicide m or f (plural homicides)

1. killer

Adjective

homicide (plural homicides)

1. killer; that kills

Verb

homicide

1. first-person singular present indicative of homicider
2. third-person singular present indicative of homicider
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of homicider
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of homicider
5. second-person singular imperative of homicider

Further reading

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

Middle French

Alternative forms

• omicide

Noun

homicide m (plural homicides)

1. homicide

Noun

homicide m or f (plural homicides)

1. killer

Adjective

homicide m or f (plural homicides)

1. killer; that kills

English

Etymology

homicide +? -er

Noun

homicider (plural homiciders)

1. One who commits homicide.
   • 1970, United States. Bureau of Prisons. Office of Research, Abstracts of Research in the Bureau of Prisons (page 74)

     There were 96 American Indians on whom information was reported and 305 remaining homiciders on which information is available.

French

Verb

homicider

1. (transitive) to kill, commit homicide

Conjugation

Further reading

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