homicide

• hominicide

From Old French homicide, from Latin homicīda (“man-slayer”) and homicīdium (“manslaughter”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒm.ɪˌsaɪ̯d/

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

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.
   • 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 11, page 195:

     Homicides in 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 a homicide. She got what every homicide investigation gets.”

   • 2003, Ellen Perry Berkeley, Keith's People, →ISBN, page 58:

     We don't even know the woman was a homicide. Didn't they say it was possible they both jumped?

   • 2004, Jon Talton, Dry Heat, →ISBN, page 40:

     The medical examiner was behind on autopsies and cranky, so we didn't even know if the old guy in the pool was a homicide.

4. (uncountable, US) The department within a police force that investigates cases of homicide.

• (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

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

• homicidal

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French Wikipedia has an article on:

homicide

Wikipedia ^fr

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.mi.sid/

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From Latin homicīdium.

homicide m (plural homicides)

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

From Latin homicīda.

homicide m or f by sense (plural homicides)

1. homicide, killer (person who kills another)

homicide (plural homicides)

1. killer; that kills

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

homicide

1. inflection of homicider:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

• omicide

homicide m (plural homicides)

1. homicide

homicide m or f (plural homicides)

1. killer

homicide m or f (plural homicides)

1. killer; that kills