Latin

Noun

scrūpulus m ‎(genitive scrūpulī); second declension

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

Inflection

Second declension.

Synonyms

• (uneasiness): scrūpus

Derived terms

• scrūpulōsus

Related terms

Descendants

• English: scruple
• Italian: scrupolo
• Portuguese: escrópulo, escrúpulo
• Russian: скрупул ‎(skrupul)

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “scrupulus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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)