Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
Latin crimen, criminis, 'charge, accusation; guilt, crime' which yields English crime. (It is an interesting digression that the accusative case stems from a faulty loan translation of the Greek αιτιατικη πτωσις (aitiātikē ptōsis) 'the causal, or causative, case'.)


Deponents can be interesting.

And also, in this particular case, as well as the word 'case' used as a grammatical term (accusative case), when being investigated, in English a crime is called a case.