"culpa" meaning in Latin

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Noun

IPA: [ˈkʊɫ.pa] [Classical-Latin], [ˈkul.pa] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From Proto-Italic *kʷolpā (“wrong, mistake”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷolp-eh₂ (“bend, turn”), from *kʷelp- (“to bend, turn”). Etymology templates: {{inh|la|itc-pro|*kʷolpā|t=wrong, mistake}} Proto-Italic *kʷolpā (“wrong, mistake”), {{inh|la|ine-pro||*kʷolp-eh₂|t=bend, turn}} Proto-Indo-European *kʷolp-eh₂ (“bend, turn”) Head templates: {{la-noun|culpa<1>}} culpa f (genitive culpae); first declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|culpa<1>}} Forms: culpae [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], culpa [nominative, singular], culpae [nominative, plural], culpae [genitive, singular], culpārum [genitive, plural], culpae [dative, singular], culpīs [dative, plural], culpam [accusative, singular], culpās [accusative, plural], culpā [ablative, singular], culpīs [ablative, plural], culpa [singular, vocative], culpae [plural, vocative]
  1. fault, defect, weakness, frailty, temptation Tags: declension-1, feminine
    Sense id: en-culpa-la-noun--xy-kul0
  2. blame, guilt Tags: declension-1, feminine
    Sense id: en-culpa-la-noun-kbYZ-e~W Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin feminine nouns in the first declension Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 8 25 25 25 17 Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the first declension: 24 31 21 24
  3. crime, punishable act, mischief, sin Tags: declension-1, feminine
    Sense id: en-culpa-la-noun-CP-Xjsop Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 8 25 25 25 17 Synonyms: dēlīctum, peccātum, scelus, vitium, noxa, crīmen, facinus, iniūria, malum, error, flāgitium, dēlinquentia, commissum, maleficium
  4. specifically, regarding sexual misconduct or unchastity Tags: declension-1, feminine
    Sense id: en-culpa-la-noun-vuEvtFhW Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 8 25 25 25 17
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: culpābilis, culpō, meā culpā
Etymology number: 1

Verb

Forms: culpā [canonical]
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Etymology templates: {{nonlemma}} See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Head templates: {{head|la|verb form|head=culpā}} culpā
  1. second-person singular present active imperative of culpō Tags: active, form-of, imperative, present, second-person, singular Form of: culpō
    Sense id: en-culpa-la-verb-yJN90hxr Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 8 25 25 25 17
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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          "_dis": "24 31 21 24",
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          "text": "Titivillus in culpa est.",
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          "roman": "huic ūnī forsan potuī succumbere culpae.”",
          "text": "“… sī nōn pertaesum thalamī taedaeque fuisset,",
          "translation": "“… 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.”\n(Did had pledged never to remarry; cf. Aeneid 4.172. Page, T.E. [1967], notes culpae as “a favorite euphemism in connection with love.”)",
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          "culpo#Latin"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Latin dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-01-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (96027d6 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.