Crime

Morpheme

Crime

Type

bound base

Denotation

offense, sinfulness, infraction

Etymology

Middle English cryme, crime; Old French crime; Latin crīmen, from cernō +‎ -men

Evidence

anticrime, crime, crimebuster, crimefighter, crimeful, crimeless, crimelike, crimeproof, crimes, crimestopper, criminal, criminalization, criminalize, criminally, criminology, crimogenic, cybercrime, decriminalize, noncriminal, postcrime, precrime, recriminalize, thoughtcrime

See Also

-men