scrupulus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.?

Latin scrūpus

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-e-lós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -ulus

Latin scrūpulus

Diminutive of scrūpus +‎ -ulus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈskruː.pʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈskruː.pu.lus]

Noun

scrūpulus m (genitive scrūpulī); second declension

1. a small, sharp or pointed stone
2. (figuratively) anxiety; uneasiness; difficulty; doubt; scruple

   Synonym: scrūpus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	scrūpulus	scrūpulī
genitive	scrūpulī	scrūpulōrum
dative	scrūpulō	scrūpulīs
accusative	scrūpulum	scrūpulōs
ablative	scrūpulō	scrūpulīs
vocative	scrūpule	scrūpulī

Derived terms

• scrūpulōsus
• scrūpulum

Related terms

• scrūpeda
• scrūpeus
• scrūpōsus
• scrūpulōsē
• scrūpulōsitās
• scrūpus

Descendants

• → Old French: scrupule
  • French: scrupule
  • → English: scruple
  • → Classical Gaelic: scrupul
    • Irish: scrupall
• → 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, 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^[1], 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)