Etymograph

English

inculpate

Inculpate comes from Late Latin inculpo ‘to blame, accuse’, from Proto-Italic *kʷolpā ‘wrong, mistake’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷelp- ‘to bend, turn’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*kʷelp-‘to bend, turn’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*kʷolp-eh₂‘bend, turn’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kʷolpā‘wrong, mistake’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEculpa‘blame, guilt’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEculpō‘to blame’
  6. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEinculpo‘to blame, accuse’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 2007inculpate

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*kʷelp-‘to bend, turn’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*kʷolp-eh₂‘bend, turn’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kʷolpā‘wrong, mistake’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEculpa‘blame, guilt’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEculpō‘to blame’
  6. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEinculpo‘to blame, accuse’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 2007inculpate

Earliest quotation: 2007, Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union: “In a way that appears suspicious? That seems to…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *kʷelp- ‘to bend, turn’

gulf, overwhelm, 9 more

through Latin culpa ‘blame, guilt’

culpa, 1 more

through Latin culpō ‘to blame’

culpable

Today it means

verb To imply the guilt of; to blame or incriminate.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *kʷelp- / inculpate

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