colpa

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Irish

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish colpthae.[1]

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈkɔlˠəpˠə/, /ˈkɔl̪ˠəpˠə/ (as if spelled colbtha, as epenthesis does not normally occur between l and p)[2]

Noun

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

  1. calf (of leg)
    Synonyms: orca, pluc
  2. handle (of flail); cudgel
Declension
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Alternative (feminine) declension
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

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colpa m (genitive singular colpa, nominative plural colpaí)

  1. Alternative form of colpach (yearling heifer or bullock, stirk)
  2. collop (unit of grazing land)
  3. number of sheep, goats, geese, equated to a heifer for grazing purposes
  4. (cooking) collop
Declension
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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
colpa cholpa gcolpa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “colpthae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 362, page 124

Further reading

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Italian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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colpa f (plural colpe)

  1. fault
  2. blame
    dare la colpato blame (literally, “give the blame”)
  3. guilt
  4. sin

Derived terms

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Further reading

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

Anagrams

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Spanish

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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colpa f (plural colpas)

  1. colcothar used as a flux for silver

Verb

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colpa

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

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