Meaning of culpa | Babel Free

Definitions

1. fault, defect, weakness, frailty, temptation
   declension-1, feminine
2. blame, guilt
   declension-1, feminine
3. crime, punishable act, mischief, sin
   declension-1, feminine
4. specifically, regarding sexual misconduct or unchastity
   declension-1, feminine

Equivalents

Examples

“Titivillus in culpa est.”

Titivillus is at fault [for introducing the errata in a copy of a manuscript].

““… sī nōn pertaesum thalamī taedaeque fuisset,”

“… 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.” (Dido 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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