crim-, crimino-

(Latin: judicial decision, verdict, object of reproach, offense)

Closely related to the cern- family of "separated, set apart" words.

Probitas laudatur et alget. Criminibus debent hortos praetoria mensas, argentum vetus et stantem extra pocula caprum.
Honesty is praised and left out in the cold. Gardens, palaces, rich tables, old silver, and those embossed goats on the cups; men owe these to their crimes.

From Decimus Iunius (Junius) Iuvenalis (Juvenalis) (c. A.D. 60-117); Saturae, I, 74; who attacked the vices of the plutocrats, the wickedness and immorality of women and foreigners (particularly Greeks), and laments the decline of the ancient aristocratic virtues.

recriminate
recrimination
recriminatory
socius criminis
A partner in crime.
Temporibus mores sapiens sine crimine mutat.
The wise man does no wrong in changing his habits with the times.

From Cato in his Disticha de Moribus, c. 175 B.C.