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Latin
Etymology
Diminutive from scrūpus (“rough or sharp stone; anxiety”) + -ulus.
Pronunciation
Noun
scrūpulus m (genitive scrūpulī); second declension
- A small sharp or pointed stone.
- The twenty-fourth part of an ounce. (clarification of this definition is needed)
- (figuratively) Anxiety, uneasiness, solicitude, difficulty, doubt, scruple.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
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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)