English

Noun

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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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin culpa.

Noun

culpa f ‎(plural culpes)

1. fault, blame
2. guilt

Derived terms

• culpar
• per culpa de

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkul.pa/

Noun

culpa f ‎(genitive culpae); first declension

1. fault, defect
2. crime

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

Verb

culpā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of culpō

References

• 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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “culpa”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese culpa, from Latin culpa.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

culpa f (plural culpas)

1. fault

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:culpa.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin culpa

Noun

culpa f ‎(plural culpas)

1. fault
2. guilt

Derived terms

• culposo, culposa

Related terms

• culpar
• culpable

Verb

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.