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English word CRIME comes from Proto-Indo-European *-men-, Proto-Indo-European *krey-, Old English eaþe, Latin adiacens, Middle English -y, Middle English ese, and later Old French eise (Ease (lack of anxiety).)

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*-men- (Proto-Indo-European)

*krey- (Proto-Indo-European)

eaþe (Old English)

That which is easy, the easy Easily Easy, smooth, not difficult.

adiacens (Latin)

-y (Middle English)

ese (Middle English)

ēaþiġ (Old English)

eise (Old French)

Ease (lack of anxiety).

*kreimen (Proto-Italic)

aisier (Old French)

To facilitate. To put at ease.

crimen (Latin)

(in respect to the accused) The fault one is accused of; crime, misdeed, offence, fault.. (in respect to the accuser) A charge, accusation, reproach; calumny, slander.. A cause of a crime; criminal.. A judicial decision, verdict, or judgment.. An object of reproach, invective.. An object representing a crime.. The crime of lewdness; adultery.

aisié (Old French)

eesy (Middle English)

crime (English)

(countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law.. (obsolete) That which occasions crime.. (uncountable) The practice or habit of committing crimes.. (uncountable) criminal acts collectively.. Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity. (nonstandard, rare) To commit crime(s).

CRIME (English)

(computing) A particular security exploit against secret Web cookies over connections using the HTTPS and SPDY protocols that also use data compression. It relies on observing the change in size of the compressed ciphertext for various inputs.

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