Translation
victim
Word origin
From Latin victima, the animal offered in a sacrifice. The word travelled unchanged through the European languages and widened from the altar to anyone something bad happens to.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- victima
- English cognates
- victim
Examples
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The victim of the accident is in hospital.
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Nobody wants to be the victim of a crime.
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The police are looking for the victim's family.
is grammatically neutral: a may be a man or a woman, and Esperanto only marks the difference if you need it, o. The word does not imply guilt on anyone's part; the one who suffers is the whether the cause was a or an .
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