Where does “Kriminologie” come from?
Kriminologie (German) comes from German kriminell, from French criminel, from Old French criminal, from Latin crīminālis, from Latin crīmen, from Proto-Italic kreimen, from Proto-Indo-European kréymn̥, from Proto-Indo-European krey- — to sift, separate, divide.
Kriminologie (German): criminology
Ancestry of “Kriminologie”, step by step