Etymology

tua culpa

Today it means: Your (singular) fault, due to your error; you are to blame. Full definition →

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Learned borrowing from the Latin phrase tuā culpā (“through your (singular) fault”), ablative case of tua culpa (“your fault, guilt”), used in English by analogy with mea culpa; also compare nostra culpa.

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