culpe

French coulpe, from Latin culpa. Compare culpable, culprit.

culpe (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) blameworthiness; fault
   • 1550, Edward Hall, “(please specify the part of the work)”, in The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, Beyng Long in Continuall Discension for the Croune of this Noble Realme, […], London: […] Rychard Grafton, […] [and Steven Mierdman], →OCLC:

     Banished out of the realme […] without culpe.

• “culpe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• cupel, pecul, pucel

culpe

1. inflection of culpar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Latin culpa.

culpe oblique singular, f (oblique plural culpes, nominative singular culpe, nominative plural culpes)

1. fault; culpability

• coupe on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
• Etymology and history of “coulpe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

culpe

1. inflection of culpar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): [ˈkulpe]

culpe f

1. inflection of culpă:
   1. indefinite plural
   2. indefinite genitive/dative singular

culpe

1. inflection of culpar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative