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Yes. The word crimen is a Scrabble US word. The word crimen is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

C3R1I1M3E1N1

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Yes. The word crimen is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

C3R1I1M3E1N1

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6-letter words (2 found)

CRIMEN,MINCER,

5-letter words (6 found)

CRIME,CRINE,INERM,MINCE,MINER,NICER,

4-letter words (21 found)

CINE,CIRE,CREM,CRIM,EMIC,EMIR,ERIC,ICER,MEIN,MERC,MERI,MICE,MIEN,MINE,MIRE,NICE,REIN,RICE,RIEM,RIME,RINE,

3-letter words (15 found)

ERM,ERN,ICE,IRE,MEN,MIC,MIR,NIE,NIM,REC,REI,REM,REN,RIM,RIN,

2-letter words (8 found)

EM,EN,ER,IN,ME,MI,NE,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 53 words from crimen according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of crimen

crimen

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin crīmen (“verdict; adultery; crime”). Doublet of crime.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɹaɪmən/

Noun

crimen (countable and uncountable, plural crimina)

  1. (religion) An impediment to marriage in the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church, preventing the marriage of people who had murdered an existing spouse in order to remarry (even without committing adultery).

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Anagrams

  • mincer

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kreimen, from Proto-Indo-European *kréymn̥, from *krey- (“sieve”) + *-mn̥, equivalent to cernō (“sieve”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix). Compare also Ancient Greek κρῖμα (krîma).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkriː.men/, [ˈkriːmɛn]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkri.men/, [ˈkriːmen]

Noun

crīmen n (genitive crīminis); third declension

  1. A judicial decision, verdict, or judgment.
  2. An object of reproach, invective.
  3. A crime, fault, offense
    Synonyms: dēlictum, peccātum, scelus, vitium, noxa, facinus, iniūria, error, culpa, malum, commissum, flāgitium, dēlinquentia, maleficium
    Antonyms: bonum, rēctum, virtūs
  4. An object representing a crime.
  5. A cause of a crime; criminal.
  6. The crime of lewdness; adultery.
  7. (in respect to the accuser) A charge, accusation, reproach; calumny, slander.
  8. (in respect to the accused) The fault one is accused of; crime, misdeed, offence, fault.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

  • crīminālis
  • crīminor
  • crīminōsus

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Descendants

References

  • “crimen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “crimen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • crimen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “crimen”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “crimen”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Anagrams

  • Cremni

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin crīmen (“verdict; crime”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɾimen/ [ˈkɾi.mẽn]
  • Rhymes: -imen
  • Syllabification: cri‧men

Noun

crimen m (plural crímenes)

  1. violent crime
    Synonym: delito

Usage notes

  • crimen refers to very serious crimes such as murder or assault; delito refers to any violation of the law.

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Descendants

  • → Ilocano: krimen
  • → Tagalog: krimen

Further reading

  • “crimen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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