meurtre

Meaning

murder

Concepts

murder

homicide

slaying

assassination

killing

foul play

murderer

crime

violence

manslaughter

divorce

execution

mangle

mutilate

kill

despatch

dispatch

slaughtering

redrum

slaughter

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mœʁtʁ/

Etymology

From Middle French meurtre (“murder”) from Old French murtre, mordre (“murder”) (compare Medieval Latin murdrum (“murder”)), both from Frankish *murþar (“murder”) from Proto-Germanic *murþrą (“murder, killing, death”), from Proto-Indo-European *mrtro- (“murder, death”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die”).
Akin to Old High German mord (“murder”) (German Mord), Old High German murdren (“to kill, murder”) (German mördern (“to murder”)), Old English morþor (“death, murder”), Old English myrþrian (“to murder”). More at murder.

Sentences

Cette fois-ci, elle est la victime d'une tentative de meurtre .

This time, she is the victim of an attempted murder.