Etymology

nostra culpa

Today it means: Our fault, due to our error; we are to blame. Full definition →

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Learned borrowing from the Latin phrase nostrā culpā (“through our fault”), ablative case of nostra culpa (“our fault, guilt”), used in English by analogy with mea culpa.

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