culpa

See also: culpá and culpă

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin culpa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌlpə/
• Rhymes: -ʌlpə

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.
   • 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

Related terms

• culpa lata
• culpa levis
• felix culpa
• mea culpa
• nostra culpa
• tua culpa

Translations

negligence or fault

Finnish: tuottamus (fi)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “culpa”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• capul

Aragonese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin culpa.

Noun

culpa f (plural culpas)

1. blame, fault

Further reading

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

Catalan

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin culpa.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

culpa f (plural culpes)

1. fault, blame
2. guilt

Derived terms

• per culpa de

Related terms

• culpable
• culpar
• disculpar
• exculpar
• inculpar

Further reading

• “culpa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Etymology 2

Verb

culpa

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

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkulpa/ [ˈkul.pɐ]
• Rhymes: -ulpa
• Hyphenation: cul‧pa

Etymology 1

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

Noun

culpa f (plural culpas)

1. blame, guilt

   A culpa morre solteira (proverb) ― Guilt dies unmarried

References

• 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: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• 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

Etymology 2

Verb

culpa

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