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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of culpō (“blame”).
Participle
culpātus (feminine culpāta, neuter culpātum); first/second-declension participle
- blamed, having been blamed
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 2.601–602:
- “‘Nōn tibi Tyndaridis faciēs invīsa Lacaenae / culpātusve Paris .’”
- “‘ not, you the hated face of the Laconian daughter of Tyndareus, nor Paris blamed .’”
(Venus tells Aeneas: Troy falls not because of Helen or Paris.)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
References
- “culpatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “culpatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- culpatus 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)
- culpatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.