名詞 culprit:

1. someone who perpetrates wrongdoing
   同義詞：perpetrator

1. The culprit will be whipped when he is found.
   那個(gè)罪犯找到後就要挨鞭子抽打。
2. The police are now on the scent of the culprit.
   警方已獲得罪犯的線索。
3. The hunt is on for the culprit.
   正在搜捕該罪犯。

cul.prit

n.（名詞）
One charged with an offense or crime.
罪犯：被指控違法或犯罪的人
One guilty of a fault or crime.
犯過失者，犯罪的人

來源：
Probably from cul. prit
可能源自 cul. prit
abbreviation for Anglo-Norman *culpable: prit d`averrer nostre bille [guilty: (I am) ready to aver our indictment]
英法語 *culpable的縮寫: prit d`averrer nostre bille [證明有罪的：（我）將要證明我們的控告屬實(shí)]
culpable [guilty] from Latin culp3bilis * see culpable
culpable [有罪的] 源自 拉丁語 culp3bilis *參見 culpable
*prit [ready] variant of prest from Latin praestô * see presto
*prit [準(zhǔn)備就緒的] prest的變體 源自 拉丁語 praestô *參見 presto

<注釋>According to British legal tradition,the wordculprit comes from cul. prit, an abbreviation of the Anglo-Norman legal phraseCulpable: prit d`averrer nostre bille. These words, said by the clerk of the crown in response to a not-guilty plea,meant, .Guilty: I am ready to aver our indictment..After law French went out of official use in the courts,the shortened formcul. prit was misinterpreted as a term of address used by the clerk to a prisoner indicted for high treason or felony and pleading .not guilty.. Culprit is first recorded in such a use in '78. The term was thereafter taken to mean .the accused,.and then, by association with Latinculpa, .guilt,. it came to mean .a guilty party..
根據(jù)英國(guó)法律的傳統(tǒng)，culprit 一詞源于 cul. prit ， 這是英國(guó)法語的法律短語Culpable： prit d`averrer nostre bille 的縮略語。 這些詞語是王國(guó)政府的書記員在回答對(duì)于被指控罪名不服的申訴時(shí)所說的，意思是：.證明有罪的：我將要證實(shí)我們的控告屬實(shí)。.在諾曼人的法律法語不限于在法庭中使用后，其縮略形式cul.prit 被錯(cuò)誤地理解為一種稱呼，書記員用它來稱呼被控犯有判國(guó)罪或重罪但又申辯.無罪.的犯人。 Culprit 一詞最早在'78年以這種用法被記錄下來。 這個(gè)詞語自那以后被用來指.被控告的人.，然后它與拉丁語culpa .有罪的.一詞相聯(lián)系， 用來表示.被證明有罪的一方.