culpa

Learned borrowing from Latin culpa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌlpə/

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.
   • 1849, James G. Butler, A Summary of the Roman Civil Law:

     Every actual delict presupposes a dolus or culpa, with the concomitant consciousness and prepense

• felix culpa

• capul

Learned borrowing from Latin culpa.

culpa f (plural culpas)

1. blame, fault

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

Learned borrowing from Latin culpa.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈkul.pə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkul.pa/

culpa f (plural culpes)

1. fault, blame
2. guilt

• per culpa de

• culpable
• culpar

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

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese culpa, a learned borrowing from Latin culpa.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkulpɐ]

culpa f (plural culpas)

1. blame, guilt

   A culpa morre solteira (proverb) ― Guilt dies unmarried

• “culpa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “culpa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “culpa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “culpa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “culpa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Proto-Italic *kʷolpā (“wrong, mistake”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷolp-eh₂ (“bend, turn”), from *kʷelp-.[1]

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

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culpa f (genitive culpae); first declension

1. fault, defect
2. blame, guilt
   • Titivillus in culpa est.

     Titivillus is at fault [for introducing the errata in a copy of a manuscript].

3. crime, punishable act, mischief

   Synonyms: dēlictum, peccātum, scelus, vitium, noxa, crīmen, facinus, iniūria, malum, error, flāgitium, dēlinquentia, commissum, maleficium

   Antonyms: bonum, rēctum, virtūs

First-declension noun.

• culpō
• meā culpā

• French: coulpe
• Italian: colpa
• Old Portuguese: culpa
  • Galician: culpa
  • Portuguese: culpa
• Romanian: culpă
• Sicilian: curpa
• Spanish: culpa

• “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, 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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

culpā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of culpō

Learned borrowing from Latin culpa.

• Hyphenation: cul‧pa

culpa f (plural culpas)

1. fault

For quotations using this term, see Citations:culpa.

culpa f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of culpă

Learned borrowing from Latin culpa; cf. the inherited Old Spanish colpa.[1]

culpa f (plural culpas)

1. fault
2. guilt
3. blame

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

• culpar
• culpable
• culpabilidad

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

culpa

1. inflection of culpar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “culpa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014