culpable
English
Etymology
From Middle English culpable, from Old French culpable, from Latin culpabilis (“blameworthy”), from culpare (“to blame, condemn”), from culpa (“fault, crime, mistake”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkʌlpəbəl/
Audio (US) (file)
Adjective
culpable (comparative more culpable, superlative most culpable)
- Meriting condemnation, censure or blame, especially as something wrong, harmful or injurious; blameworthy.
- I am culpable for stealing your money.
Derived terms
- culpability
- culpable homicide
- culpable negligence
- culpableness
- culpably
- inculpable
- nonculpable
- unculpable
Translations
blameworthy
Further reading
- culpable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- culpable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Catalan
Further reading
- “culpable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “culpable” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “culpable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “culpable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin culpabilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kulˈpable/, [kulˈpaβle]
audio (Bolivia) (file)
Further reading
- “culpable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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