culpe

See also: culpé

English

Etymology

French coulpe, from Latin culpa. Compare culpable, culprit.

Noun

culpe (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) blameworthiness
   • E. Hall

     Banished out of the realme […] without culpe.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 culpe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

• cupel, pecul, pucel

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin culpa.

Noun

culpe f (oblique plural culpes, nominative singular culpe, nominative plural culpes)

1. fault; culpability

References

• coupe on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
• Etymology and history of “coulpe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Portuguese

Verb

culpe

1. inflection of culpar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkulpe]

Noun

culpe f

1. inflection of culpă:
   1. indefinite plural
   2. indefinite genitive/dative singular

Spanish

Verb

culpe

1. inflection of culpar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative