Plural of culpa; Spanish or Portuguese plural of fault or blame.
Latin culpa (fault) adopted into Spanish and Portuguese with regular plural formation (-as for feminine nouns). The word appears in Spanish and Portuguese legal and theological texts.
The word 'culpa' traveled from Latin into Romance languages with almost identical meaning—showing how legal and moral concepts remained stable across languages because lawyers and priests kept using the original Latin terminology.
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