culpo Latin · revision 31884

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la culpa}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈkʊɫ.poː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈkul.po]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''culpō''' (present infinitive culpāre, perfect active culpāvī, supine culpātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|culpa|-ō|t1=fault, blame]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|culpa]] to [[itc-pro|*k(w)e/ol(V)pā-|t=wrong, mistake]] and perhaps [[ine-pro|*kʷolp-h₂-|t=bend, turn]]: if, as Ernout and Meillet held, it first meant a state of error, it may be linked with Germanic words for “to wind, bend”.^(de Vaan 2008) He compares [[grc|κόλπος|tr=kólpos|t=bosom, lap]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) who has “I'd much rather be falsely praised than truly blamed”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to blame, censure or find fault with people, as Lucilius' critic who blames Homer, and things, as Plautus' man who finds fault with the gods' plans and Ovid's woman who faulted a goddess's beauty.^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder uses it with an infinitive, to complain that colours wash out.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it rare, mostly post-Augustan and absent from Cicero's time.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it “blame, disapprove, find fault with”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of being blamed and of faulting the gods.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius of blaming Homer.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of faulting a goddess's face.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of complaining.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|blame]], [[m|en|censure]], find fault with.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To complain that.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[culpābilis]]

+ * [[culpātiō]]

+ * [[culpitō]]

+ * [[dēculpātus]]

+ * [[inculpātus]]

+ * [[inculpō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[culpa]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Döderlein says that ''arguere'' is the most general word for charging someone with guilt, while ''incūsāre'' and the less frequent ''culpāre'' are only complaints made outside a court of law.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}