culpa

See also: culpá and culpă

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin culpa.

Noun

culpa (plural culpae)

1. (law) negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “culpa”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• capul

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Aragonese

Etymology

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Noun

culpa f (plural culpas)

1. blame, fault

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “culpa”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin culpa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkul.pə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkul.pa]

Noun

culpa f (plural culpes)

1. fault, blame
2. guilt

Derived terms

• per culpa de

Related terms

• culpable
• culpar

Further reading

• “culpa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kʷolpā (“wrong, mistake”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷolp-eh₂ (“bend, turn”), from *kʷelp-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkul.pa/, [ˈkʊɫ̪pä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkul.pa/, [ˈkulpä]

• Audio (Classical):

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Noun

culpa f (genitive culpae); first declension

1. fault, defect
2. crime

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	culpa	culpae
Genitive	culpae	culpārum
Dative	culpae	culpīs
Accusative	culpam	culpās
Ablative	culpā	culpīs
Vocative	culpa	culpae

Descendants

• English: mea culpa
• French: coulpe, mea-culpa, mea culpa
• Italian: colpa

• Old Galician-Portuguese: culpa
  • Portuguese: culpa
• Romanian: culpă
• Sicilian: curpa
• Spanish: culpa

Verb

(deprecated template usage) culpā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of culpō

References

• “culpa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “culpa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• culpa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• culpa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a guilty conscience: conscientia mala or peccatorum, culpae, sceleris, delicti
    
  • to be conscious of no ill deed: nullius culpae sibi conscium esse
    
  • to be free from blame: extra culpam esse
    
  • to be almost culpable: affinem esse culpae
    
  • to put the blame on another: culpam in aliquem conferre, transferre, conicere
    
  • to attribute the fault to some one: culpam alicui attribuere, assignare
    
  • to commit some blameworthy action: culpam committere, contrahere
    
  • to commit some blameworthy action: facinus, culpam in se admittere
    
  • to bear the blame of a thing: culpam alicuius rei sustinere
    
  • to exonerate oneself from blame: culpam a se amovere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be at fault; to blame; culpable: in culpa esse
    
  • (ambiguous) some one is to blame in a matter; it is some one's fault: culpa alicuius rei est in aliquo
    
  • (ambiguous) it is my fault: mea culpa est
    
  • (ambiguous) to be free from blame: culpa carere, vacare
    
  • (ambiguous) to be free from blame: abesse a culpa
    
  • (ambiguous) to be almost culpable: prope abesse a culpa
    
• “culpa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “culpa”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese culpa, probably borrowed from Latin culpa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuɫ.pɐ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkuw.pɐ/
• Hyphenation: cul‧pa

Noun

culpa f (plural culpas)

1. fault

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:culpa.

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin culpa; cf. also the Old Spanish form colpa, which less learned.

Noun

culpa f (plural culpas)

1. fault
2. guilt

Derived terms

• culposo, culposa
• libre de culpa (“off the hook, blameless”)

Related terms

• culpar
• culpable

Verb

culpa

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of culpar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of culpar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of culpar.