Where does “kriminalist” come from?
kriminalist (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Serbo-Croatian kriminalìstika, from German Kriminalistik, from German Kriminalist, from German Kriminal, from Latin crīminālis, from Latin crīmen, from Proto-Italic kreimen, from Proto-Indo-European kréymn̥ — to sift, separate, divide.
kriminalist (Serbo-Croatian): criminologist
Ancestry of “kriminalist”, step by step