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Latin
Etymology
scrūpulus + -ōsus
Pronunciation
Adjective
scrūpulōsus (feminine scrūpulōsa, neuter scrūpulōsum); first/second-declension adjective
- Full of sharp stones
- rough, rugged
- steep
- exact, precise, anxious, careful, scrupulous
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “scrupulosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “scrupulosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "scrupulosus", 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)
- scrupulosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.