English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman cul. prit, contraction of culpable: prest (d'averrer nostre bille) 'guilty: ready (to prove our case)', words used by prosecutor in opening a trial, mistaken in English for an address to the defendant. See culpable.
Pronunciation
Noun
culprit (plural culprits)
- The person or thing at fault for a problem or crime.
- I have tightened the loose bolt that was the culprit; it should work now.
2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport[1]:But the Dutch dominated only to waste numerous efforts, with Arjen Robben and Robin van Persie the main culprits.
- (UK, law) A prisoner accused but not yet tried.
Synonyms
Translations
culprit
- Bulgarian: обвиняем (bg) m (obvinjaem), подсъдим (bg) m (podsǎdim)
- Catalan: culpable (ca) m or f
- Czech: viník m
- Dutch: schuldige (nl), dader (nl) m
- Finnish: syyllinen (fi), syypää (fi)
- French: coupable (fr) m or f
- German: Beschuldigter (de) m, Missetäter m, Schuldiger (de) m, Täter (de) m, Übeltäter (de) m, (law) Beklagter (de) m
- Greek: ένοχος (el) m or f (énochos), φταίχτης (el) m (ftaíchtis)
- Indonesian: pembuat ulah, pelaku (id)
- Irish: ciontach
- Italian: colpevole (it), reo (it) m
- Latvian: vaininieks m, vaininiece f
- (deprecated template usage)
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- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: synder (no) m
- Polish: delikwent m, winowajca (pl) m
- Portuguese: culpado (pt) m
- Russian: вино́вник (ru) m (vinóvnik), обвиня́емый (ru) m (obvinjájemyj), подсуди́мый (ru) m (podsudímyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: krivac (sh), vinovnik (sh)
- Spanish: culpable (es) m
- Swedish: brottsling (sv) c, förövare (sv) c, gärningsman (sv) c
- Turkish: mücrim (tr), suçlu (tr), zanlı (tr), (law): hükümlü (tr), sanık (tr)
- Vietnamese: thủ phạm (vi)
- Walloon: coupåbe (wa) m or f
- Welsh: euog (cy) m or f
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