culpatus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of culpō (“blame”).

Participle

culpātus (feminine culpāta, neuter culpātum); first/second-declension participle

1. blamed, having been blamed
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.601–602:

     “‘Nōn tibi Tyndaridis faciēs invīsa Lacaenae / culpātusve Paris [...].’”

     “‘[It is] not, [as] you [think,] the hated face of the Laconian daughter of Tyndareus, nor Paris [who should be] blamed [...].’”
     (Venus tells Aeneas: Troy falls not because of Helen or Paris.)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	culpātus	culpāta	culpātum		culpātī	culpātae	culpāta
genitive	culpātī	culpātae	culpātī		culpātōrum	culpātārum	culpātōrum
dative	culpātō	culpātae	culpātō		culpātīs
accusative	culpātum	culpātam	culpātum		culpātōs	culpātās	culpāta
ablative	culpātō	culpātā	culpātō		culpātīs
vocative	culpāte	culpāta	culpātum		culpātī	culpātae	culpāta

Derived terms

• inculpātus

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.