scrupulus

Latin

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈskruː.pu.lus/, [ˈs̠kruːpʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈskru.pu.lus/, [ˈskruːpulus]

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

• (uneasiness): scrūpus

Derived terms

• scrūpulōsus

Related terms

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

Descendants

• → Old French: scrupule
  • French: scrupule
  • → English: scruple
• → 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^[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)