culpa

From Latin culpa.

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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• capul

culpa f (plural culpas)

1. blame, fault

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

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

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

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culpa f (genitive culpae); first declension

1. fault, defect
2. crime

First declension.

culpā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of culpō

• 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, 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

From Old Portuguese culpa, probably borrowed from Latin culpa.

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

culpa f (plural culpas)

1. fault

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:culpa.

Borrowed from Latin culpa; cf. also the Old Spanish form colpa, which less learned[1].

culpa f (plural culpas)

1. fault
2. guilt

• culposo, culposa

• culpar
• culpable

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.