What Does Homicide Mean?

Homicide means the killing or murder of one person by another. It can refer also to a person who has committed the act of murder or killing another.

The word homicide comes from the Middle English and was derived from the Old French. It comes originally from the Latin "homicidium" which is an amalgamation of "homo" or human being and "caedere" or to kill.

As per Biblical accounts the first homicide was when Abel was killed by Cain. Paintings of Cain after he had committed homicide depicted him walking with his wife and children, all of them looking wretched, but wretched of all and marked for ever walked Cain, cursed as the first murderer.

Homicide is basically the killing of another human being. Homicide may not necessarily be illegal, like in self defense etc, but in legal systems only illegal killings are termed homicide.

Homicide, or murder, is the intentional, usually premeditated, killing of another person. There are varying degrees of this in the legal system ( ie. Murder in the first degree, etc.) that depend on the conditions of the murder, such as how much premeditation was involved how the victim was killed or for what reason (crime of passion, mercy killing or whatever).
An unintentional, accidental killing or one without premeditation aforethought is usually considered manslaughter and carries a lesser sentence. An example of this might be causing a car accident in which some one dies or being negligent in some aspect.
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It means to kill someone. When you kill someone you commit homicide

Its when someone murders someone else

It means like a murder

Homicide means murder. Someone kills someone else so that would be called homicide.

Someone kill someone else

Homicide is killing another person.

Murder

The killing of one person by another person.

Homicide means ,killing without before thought,or by accident,,

Killing a person....It's the formal word for murder.

To murder some one.

Homicide is just another word for Murder.

That is the killing of a human.

It is the same thing as murder.

Killing or murdering some one.

Homicide is the unlawful killing of a human being.

It means to murder someone, harm them, or kill them.

Homicide is when a person intentionally kills another person. One type of homicide is murder.

The word means to kill a human being and is derived for the Latin word "homicidium"

"Homicide (Latin homicidium, homo human being + caedere to cut, kill) refers to the act of killing another human being . . . Although "homicide" is often used as a synonym for "murder," this is not formally correct."

To kill someone or murder it be a fancy word

Homicide means we don't have michael around anymore.

Homicide mean the killing of a human being by another human being

The act of murdering another or killing.

Homicide means "the killing of a human being by another human being".