Etymology Word of the Week – As some of you know, in addition to working in the Admissions Office, I also teach Latin at Saint Ignatius and am something of a "word nerd."  Thus, each week, I’ll sneak a vocabulary word (sometimes derived from Latin, sometimes not) into the e-news.  Here, then, is this week’s edition of the Etymology Word of the Week.  

 

Culprit

 

Definition: “a person who is guilty of or responsible for an offense or fault.”

Origin/Derivation: From the Latin noun culpa meaning “crime, fault, blame, guilt”.

Related Words: culpable, mea culpa, exculpatory

(All information is from www.wikipedia.org, www.etymonline.com and/or www.dictionary.com)

 

 

Trivia Question of the Week:

“George Orwell” is a literary pseudonym. What is the real name of the man who
wrote 1984 and Animal Farm, among other novels?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANSWER:

Eric Blair