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crimă
murder /ˈkri.mə/
noun#355 most common
Also: crime (grave offense, e.g. war crime), killing
Example sentences
Aceasta este o crimă.
This is a murder.
Poliția investighează o crimă în oraș.
The police are investigating a murder in the city.
Crima a fost comisă noaptea, lângă parc.
The murder was committed at night, near the park.
Detectivii au rezolvat mai multe crime anul trecut.
The detectives solved several murders last year.
Motivul crimei rămâne necunoscut, deși ancheta a durat luni de zile.
The motive for the murder remains unknown, though the investigation lasted months.
Tribunalul Penal Internațional a calificat masacrul drept crimă de război și crimă împotriva umanității.
The International Criminal Tribunal classified the massacre as a war crime and a crime against humanity.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | crimă | crime |
| Genitive | crime | crime |
| Accusative | crimă | crime |
| Vocative | crimă | crime |
Word family
Etymology
Crimă entered Romanian in the nineteenth century as a learned borrowing from French crime, part of a wave of French vocabulary that reshaped Romanian legal and cultural terms. French crime itself descends from Latin crimen, meaning accusation or judgment. Latin crimen is tied to the verb cernere, to sift or discern, since an accusation was originally a judgment that separated the guilty from the innocent.
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