scrupulus

Latin

Alternative forms
  • (meaning 1/24 of ounce) scrūpulum, scrīpulum, scrīptulum, scrīptlum

Etymology

Diminutive from scrūpus (“rough or sharp stone; anxiety”) +‎ -ulus.

Pronunciation

Noun

scrūpulus m (genitive scrūpulī); second declension

  1. A small sharp or pointed stone.
  2. The twenty-fourth part of an ounce. (clarification of this definition is needed)
  3. (figuratively) Anxiety, uneasiness, solicitude, difficulty, doubt, scruple.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative scrūpulus scrūpulī
Genitive scrūpulī scrūpulōrum
Dative scrūpulō scrūpulīs
Accusative scrūpulum scrūpulōs
Ablative scrūpulō scrūpulīs
Vocative scrūpule scrūpulī

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → Old French: scrupule
  • → German: Skrupel
  • → Italian: scrupolo
  • → Portuguese: escrópulo, escrúpulo
  • → Polish: skrupuł
  • → Russian: скрупул (skrupul)
  • → Sicilian: scrùpulu
  • → Spanish: escrúpulo

References
  • “scrupulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “scrupulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • scrupulus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • scrupulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to relieve a man of his scruple: scrupulum ex animo alicuius evellere (Rosc. Am. 2. 6)
    • one thing still makes me hesitate: unus mihi restat scrupulus (Ter. Andr. 5. 4. 37) (cf. too religio, sect. XI. 2)
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