manslaughter

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English manslaȝter, manslauter, equivalent to man +‎ slaughter, or taken as an adaptation of Old English mansliht (“murder; killing of a person”), from mann (“person”) +‎ sliht (“killing”), see manslaught. Cognate with Scots manslauchter (“homicide”). Compare also Old Frisian monslaga (“murder”). === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmænˌslɔːtə/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈmænˌslɔtɚ/ === Noun === manslaughter (countable and uncountable, plural manslaughters) (obsolete) The slaying of a human being. (law) The unlawful killing of a human, either in negligence or incidentally to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice, or upon a sudden excitement of anger; considered less culpable than murder, but more culpable than justifiable homicide. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== self-slaughter ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === manslaughter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “manslaughter”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. === Anagrams === slaughterman