Etymology

noncriminal

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Today it means: Not criminal; civil. Full definition →

English criminal ← Middle English cryminal ← Anglo-Norman crimina
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Germanic*ne
  3. Proto-Indo-European*ís?
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
  5. Proto-Germanic*ainaz
  6. Proto-Germanic*nainaz
  7. Proto-West Germanic*nain
  8. Old Englishnān
  9. Middle Englishnon
  10. Old Englishnān
  11. Old Englishnān-
  12. Middle Englishnon-
  13. Englishnon-
  14. Proto-Indo-European*krey-
  15. Proto-Indo-European*kréymn̥
  16. Proto-Italic*kreimən
  17. Latincrīmen
  18. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  19. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  20. Late Latincrimināli
  21. Anglo-Normancrimina
  22. Middle Englishcryminal
  23. Englishcriminal
  24. English todaynoncriminal

From non- + criminal.

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