culpa

Learned borrowing from Latin culpa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌlpə/
• Rhymes: -ʌlpə

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

• 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.

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

culpa f (plural culpes)

1. fault, blame
2. guilt

• per culpa de

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

culpa

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

From Old Galician-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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “culpa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “culpa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “culpa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “culpa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “culpa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

culpa

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

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

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

culpa f (genitive culpae); first declension

1. fault, defect, weakness, frailty, temptation
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, sin

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

   Antonyms: bonum, rēctum, virtūs

4. specifically, regarding sexual misconduct or unchastity
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.18-19:

     “[...] sī nōn pertaesum thalamī taedaeque fuisset,
     huic ūnī forsan potuī succumbere culpae.”

     “[...] if it had not been [for my] weariness of the marriage torch and bridal chamber, I would have been able to succumb to this one fault.”
     (Did had pledged never to remarry; cf. Aeneid 4.172. Page, T.E. [1967], notes culpae as “a favorite euphemism in connection with love.”)

First-declension noun.

• culpō
• meā culpā

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: colpa
  • Sicilian: curpa
• North Italian:
  • Romansch: cuolpa
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: colpa
  • Old French: colpe, coupe, cope, corpe
    • Middle French: coupe, courpe, coulpe (Latinized)
      • French: coulpe
  • Occitan: colpa
• Borrowings:
  • → Aragonese: culpa
  • → Catalan: culpa
  • → Old Galician-Portuguese: culpa
    • Galician: culpa
    • Portuguese: culpa
  • → Romanian: culpă
  • → Old Spanish: culpa
    • Spanish: culpa
  • → English: culpa

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “cŭlpa”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 1497

• “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

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
2. guilt

For quotations using this term, see Citations:culpa.

culpa

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

culpa f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of culpă

• IPA^(key): /ˈkulpa/ [ˈkul.pa]

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• Rhymes: -ulpa
• Syllabification: cul‧pa

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”)

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 (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28