colpa

• colptha

From Old Irish colpthae.

colpa m or f (genitive singular colpa, nominative plural colpaí)

1. (anatomy, ~ (coise)) calf (of leg)

   Synonyms: orca, pluc

2. (~ (súiste)) handle (of flail); cudgel

Alternative (feminine) declension

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

colpa m (genitive singular colpa, nominative plural colpaí)

1. Alternative form of colpach (“yearling heifer or bullock, stirk”)
   1. collop (unit of grazing land)
   2. (~ caorach, gabhar, géanna) number of sheep, goats, geese, equated to a heifer for grazing purposes
2. (cooking) collop

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “colpa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “colpthae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “colpa” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “colpa” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

From Latin culpa, from Proto-Italic *kʷolpā (“wrong, mistake”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷolp-eh₂ (“bend, turn”), from *kʷelp-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkol.pa/
• Rhymes: -olpa
• Hyphenation: cól‧pa

colpa f (plural colpe)

1. fault
2. blame

   dare la colpa ― to blame (literally, “give the blame”)

3. guilt
4. sin

• colpevole
• discolpare
• scolpare

• colpabile

• colpa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• palco, placo, placò, polca

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkolpa/ [ˈkol.pa]
• Rhymes: -olpa
• Syllabification: col‧pa

colpa f (plural colpas)

1. colcothar used as a flux for silver

colpa

1. inflection of colpar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “colpa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014