larceny
noun
[ ˈlɑːs(ə)ni ]
• theft of personal property. In English law larceny was replaced as a statutory crime by theft in 1968.
Similar:
theft,
stealing,
robbery,
pilfering,
thieving,
thievery,
purloining,
burglary,
housebreaking,
breaking and entering,
appropriation,
expropriation,
misappropriation,
lifting,
filching,
swiping,
nicking,
pinching,
half-inching,
blagging,
peculation,
Origin:
late 15th century: from Old French larcin, from Latin latrocinium, from latro(n- ) ‘robber’, earlier ‘mercenary soldier’, from Greek latreus .
