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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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This word is part of lesson 31.