English → Latin
“culpable” in Latin
reprehendōto hold back, hold fast, take hold of, seize, catch; to hold fast, check, restrain; retrieve, recover, restore; to blamevituperābilisblameworthyvituperōto censure; to scold, tell off, blame; to disparage, find fault withreprehēnsiōblame, reprimand, criticism; refutationmalusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad; unpleasant to the senses, sight, smell, taste, touch; bad, evil, wicked, manimadvertōto pay attention, attend, focus, concentrate, give heed to, consider, regard, observe; to notice, observe, take note (offacinusdeed, action, doing; adventure, venture, undertaking; crime, wickedness, evil deed
The English word culpable itself goes back to Latin culpa, through culpābilis.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
culpable
reprehendendus: vituperabilis: vituperandus: reprehensione or vituperatione dignus (deserving reproof; SYN. of vituperatio and reprehensio in To BLAME): malus (bad): poena dignus (deserving punishment): animadvertendus (only of actions deserving severe notice or punishment; e.g., facinus). To be culpable, in vitio esse (of persons and things); in culpa esse (of persons). He who does not prevent the commission of an injury, when he can, is as culpableas, etc., qui non obsistit, si potest, injuriae, tam in vitio est, quam si, etc.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for culpable?
- The usual Latin words for “culpable” are reprehendō, vituperābilis, vituperō; also reprehēnsiō, malus, animadvertō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.