culpa
English edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin culpa.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
culpa (plural culpae)
- (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
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 edit
Aragonese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin culpa.
Noun edit
culpa f (plural culpas)
Further reading edit
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “culpa”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Catalan edit
Etymology 1 edit
Learned borrowing from Latin culpa.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
culpa f (plural culpes)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “culpa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
culpa
- inflection of culpar:
Galician edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese culpa, a learned borrowing from Latin culpa.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
culpa f (plural culpas)
References edit
- “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.
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
culpa
- inflection of culpar:
Latin edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Italic *kʷolpā (“wrong, mistake”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷolp-eh₂ (“bend, turn”), from *kʷelp-.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkul.pa/, [ˈkʊɫ̪pä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkul.pa/, [ˈkulpä]
Noun edit
culpa f (genitive culpae); first declension
- fault, defect, weakness, frailty, temptation
- blame, guilt
- Titivillus in culpa est.
- Titivillus is at fault [for introducing the errata in a copy of a manuscript].
- Titivillus in culpa est.
- crime, punishable act, mischief, sin
- 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.”)
- “[...] 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.”
- “[...] sī nōn pertaesum thalamī taedaeque fuisset,
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | culpa | culpae |
Genitive | culpae | culpārum |
Dative | culpae | culpīs |
Accusative | culpam | culpās |
Ablative | culpā | culpīs |
Vocative | culpa | culpae |
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Descendants edit
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Romansch: cuolpa
- Gallo-Romance:
- Borrowings:
References edit
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “cŭlpa”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 1497
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “culpa”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 151
Further reading edit
- “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
- a guilty conscience: conscientia mala or peccatorum, culpae, sceleris, delicti
- “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
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
culpā
Portuguese edit
Etymology 1 edit
Learned borrowing from Latin culpa.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: cul‧pa
Noun edit
culpa f (plural culpas)
Quotations edit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:culpa.
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
culpa
- inflection of culpar:
Romanian edit
Noun edit
culpa f
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Learned borrowing from Latin culpa; cf. the inherited Old Spanish colpa.[1]
Noun edit
culpa f (plural culpas)
Derived terms edit
- culposo, culposa
- echar la culpa
- libre de culpa (“off the hook, blameless”)
Related terms edit
References edit
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
culpa
- inflection of culpar:
Further reading edit
- “culpa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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